Quotes of: Difficult-thing Keyword

After all, as it says on a needlepoint sampler or throw pillow or the occasional bumper sticker: Good girls go to heaven, but bad girls go everywhere. In high heels. Or mules by Manolo Blahnik, the strappy, tangly kind that give you blisters. And whe...

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Rather than going after these walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those walls. We touch them, and smell them and get to know them well. We become familiar with the strategie...

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

Throughout my life, until this very moment, whatever virtue I have accomplished, including any benefit that may come from this book, I dedicate to the welfare of all beings. May the roots of suffering diminish. May warfare, violence, neglect, indiffe...

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

Laziness is not particularly terrible or wonderful. Rather it has a basic living quality that deserves to be experienced just as it is. Perhaps we’ll find an irritating, pulsating quality in laziness. We might feel it as dull and heavy or as vulner...

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

I feel as though, if I were to extend my hand just a little toward the pool where the ideas ferment, I could grab at the idea and pull it out of the pool and onto the floor where ideas must stand before the jury of the brain. There, it must present i...

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

Old English poetry is characterised by a number of poetic tropes which enable a writer to describe things indirectly and which require a reader imaginatively to construct their meaning. The most widespread of these figurative descriptions are what ar...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Grown-up people find it difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe almost anything, and grown-ups know this. That is why they tell you that the earth is round like an orange, when yo...

E. Nesbit

It's definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When you're graceful, people say you lack personality; when you're serene, people say you're boring; when you're confident, people say you're arrogant; when you're feminine, people say yo...

C. JoyBell C.

No one is hurt by doing the right thing.

Hawaiian

Better one good thing that is than two good things that were.

Irish

He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men’s lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat.

Dune

Whatever is difficult for you become easy if you take a bite of it every day. Try again and again!

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can’t do it any longer.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

I am a good lover, but that is not so difficult. It requires only that I pay attention, and watch and listen to a woman and her body." André Chevalier

Elizabeth's Bondage

The strong lines of the woman's face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?

Elantris

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

Elsewhere

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.

Eleven Minutes

...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion

Acting is not as difficult as you may think. People are born natural actors and play many parts on the stage of life. Everyone is constantly in front of an audience — or performing monologues when alone.

Filmmaking for Dummies

No matter how short or long your journey to your accomplishment is, if you don't begin you can't get there. Beginning is difficult, but unavoidable!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes