“It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?” EasyGreaterHumilityBearsHumbleInferiorsBe Humble Book:Anne Source: Anne
“By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.” WorldSelfMovingIndividualEasyDifficultRealizingChanceStruggleGreaterSacrificeSecuritySolitudeSelf ConfidencePartnersSubstitutesGlancesTransfersSense Of SelfMarryingPurgatorySecond ThoughtsDifficult Experiences Author:Augustus
“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.” SelfLife IsGivenEasyStepsGreaterMagicChildhoodDevelopmentLetting GoIllusionAdultsTasksSafetyCastsTechniqueFamiliarPassagesExpansionGiven UpSense Of SelfLife Is Not Easy Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
“When people are courting, many of them think that when they get married, that's it, and everything will be on Easy Street. But you really have to work even harder once you're married, because the challenges are that much greater.” PeopleThinkingEasyChallengesGreaterStreetsMarriedHarderEasy Street Author:Morris Chestnut
“In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.” NeedsBelieveWholeLightSpiritualCultureEvilEasyDarkDarknessGreaterNeededDevilWesternNarrativeWestern CultureDichotomy Author:Kevin Sessums
“Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.” IfsLongWantedFatherEasyChallengesResultsGreaterChangedProveAccountsLifestyleCompetentProve Myself Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou
“The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.” MenStillsImportantEasyStruggleGreaterRightsAchieveDangerCostClaimsCommittedPeacefulProtestMarchHope For The FutureTurbulence Book:RFK: collected speeches Source: RFK: collected speeches
“A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.” MenWaySoulFactsEasyPresidentAttitudeGreaterWindowTolerancePope Author:George H. W. Bush