“When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.” WorldWayHumansSometimesHardFightingCoursesLinesHuman BeingsResultsSituationStruggleEnvironmentToo MuchMastersHappeningsToughDifficultyFishesRisingSwimHookHookedTrout Author:Karl A. Menninger
“Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.” PeopleHumansSelfMomentsUseHuman BeingsSkillsLosingDifficultyWake UpDenyAwakeningUsualCopingMedicationWake Up CallSelf Medicating Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?” IfsShouldHumansDoeRealSelfDifficultTermHuman BeingsPiecesMysteryPaintingIntellectualOrdinaryDifficultyEncountersProseAddressesDescriptionInner SelfSimplificationDemeaningOrdinary Days Author:Geoffrey Hill
“Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.” KnowsFirstsHumansMeanLittlesPersonsReasonDifficultHuman BeingsHappenedEventsDifficultyThings HappenMemoirReason Why Book:Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings Source: Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings
“For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.” KnowsMenGivingYearsHumansMeanImportantUsePurposeSexHuman BeingsDifficultyCarefulSeekingCriticalLawyerScholarMasculineTranslators Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.” HumansMayMomentsHuman BeingsFeetHuman NatureDifficultyDisasterThreadAbyssSpoilDiscontent Author:Ivan Turgenev
“We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not taught how to speak to our difficulties and challenges. We're taught the Pythagorean theorem and chemistry and biology and history. We're not taught anger management. We're not taught dissolution of fear and how to process shame and guilt. I've never in my life ever used the Pythagorean theorem!” HumansUsedSpeakProcessChallengesHuman BeingsDealsTaughtWeaknessDifficultyShameManagementGuiltBiologyChemistryAnger ManagementFrailtyDissolutionTheoremsShame And GuiltPythagorean Theorem Author:Iyanla Vanzant