Difficulties Quotes

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Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

- Agnes Repplier

Life is hard right up until the moment it isn't.

- Sue Morter

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Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

- Madame de Stael

That "change makes us uncomfortable" is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and underconsidered half-truths around.... [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we "know" to be present that causes us anxiety. (from Immunity to Change)

- Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

Imperfection is not our personal problem, it is a natural part of existing,

- Tara Brach

Community is that place where the person you least want to live with always lives.

And when that person moves away, someone else arises to take his or her place.

- Parker J. Palmer

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

- Maya Angelou

Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.

- Lily Tomlin

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

- Maya Angelou

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

- Niels Bohr

I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

- Sam Nunn

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

- Maya Angelou

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

- Sophocles

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"

- Sydney J. Harris

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

- Oscar Wilde

Into each life some rain must fall.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

- Mia Hamm

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather, achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

- William Hastie

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

- Hafiz of Persia

Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

- Hannah More

Sustainability isn't about the quick fix or the cheap solution. Generally it means making a commitment and trying, as best we can, to honor it. In any worthwhile enterprise, from protecting the environment to preserving a relationship, we are going to encounter difficulties. The good life is not a problem-free life. In point of fact, the process of overcoming adversity often produces some of the most rewarding experiences we will ever have. Human beings need to be challenged to 'test their mettle,' as it were. Throwing in the towel at the first sign of trouble or small inkling of distress may be the easy thing to do, but it doesn't help our self-concept. Most of life's troubles can be overcome if we are willing to work through them with patience.

- Michael A. Schuler