It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.
I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger. ' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never grow. Lovers grow, because they have to meet the challenge every moment - and with no security. They have to create an inner phenomenon. With security you need not bother to create anything; the society helps.
It is difficulties that show what men are.
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.
serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.