Anything easy teaches you nothing! To learn something, have some difficulties!
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.
A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.
No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason?. . . How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?
Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist line and take an active attitude in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome.
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice.
Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
Choices are our choices so I am not taking away anyone's personal choice, but we run into difficulty when we're having choices made for us rather than making our own.
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.
The first step of gratitude is to see the gift. . . if you are in the middle of difficulties and problems, how can you feel gratitude? You've got to fight to find the gift even in the difficulty. . . when you shift your perspective from the perspective of the mind because life will never make sense to your mind. . . mind is very logical and life is not. In order for life to make sense you've got to be out of your mind and you've got to be into your soul. When you begin to see life from the perspective of your soul then even in the midst of the worst of it you can see the gift.
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.