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“The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it, or whether it is so calm, so unassuming, so little ostentatious in itself, that words give an imperfect idea of it, I know not. It is easier to enjoy it, than define it. ... and is oftener found at home, when home has not been embittered by dissensions, suspicions and guilt, than any where else upon earth. Yes, it is in home and in those who watch there for us.”

Source: The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)

“We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.”

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Book:Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

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Author:Theodore Isaac Rubin

“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”

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Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”

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Author:Frank Herbert