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Following is our list of life is very difficult quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about life can be tough.

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My life is a struggle. - Voltaire

My life is a struggle. — Voltaire

Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid. — Damon Runyon

Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid — John Wayne

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. - Katharine Hepburn

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. — Katharine Hepburn

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. - John Wayne

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. — John Wayne

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. - John Wayne

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. — John Wayne

My life is a battle. — Voltaire

Life is never easy for those who dream. — Robert James Waller

The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. — Joss Whedon

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid. — John Wayne

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. — Morarji Desai

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. — Moraji R. Desai

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? — Jack Kornfield

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies. — Sigmund Freud

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. - H. L. Mencken

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. — H. L. Mencken

Short Life Is Very Difficult Quotes

  • Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow. — Coolio
  • Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me. — Dalida
  • Life is choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work. — Indian Proverbs
  • Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
  • Life ain't all beer and skittles. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • Life is never completely without its challenges. — Stan Lee
  • Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything. — Ethan Hawke
  • When you have a hard life, a tough life, success becomes very easy. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
  • Life is full of challenges and surprises. — Jil Sander

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Life is very difficult quote Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Life Is Hard To Understand Quotes

When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait. — A. B. Simpson

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn. — Sylvia Plath

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them. — Charles Horton Cooley

Life is very difficult quote Don't pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
Don't pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn. — Sylvia Plath

You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you. — Byron Katie

Soul is that part of you that longs for harmony and cooperation and sharing and reverence for life. When you make decisions that align you with those values, you align your personality with your soul. It's that simple to understand. Now to do it, in my experience, is hard. — Gary Zukav

Life is very difficult quote Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power. Let difficulties know that you too are difficult.

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms. — Richard Baxter

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. — Chen Shui-bian

Somebody who is purified with life enough would be able to read your feeling before it becomes a word in your mouth. It is not very hard to understand - and you meet people like that. Almost everything is very factual and scientific and not exaggerated. — Karan Bajaj

The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road. — J. Michael Straczynski

Life Can Be Tough Quotes

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou

Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up to you to seek it out, embrace it, and live happily ever after. No matter how bad the hand you've been dealt may seem, there's always a way to play it. — Alex Gaskarth

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. — Josh Billings

Life is very difficult quote Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over. — Marie Osmond

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. — Sarah Dessen

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough. — Olivier Martinez

Life is very difficult quote Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that. — Marc Maron

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past — Emily Giffin

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?' — Amy Lee

Life Is So Difficult Quotes

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. — Isak Dinesen

Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways. — Ellen G. White

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — J. K. Rowling

Life is very difficult quote All things are difficult before they are easy
All things are difficult before they are easy

It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves. — Christian D. Larson

The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult. — Guy Kawasaki

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. — Terence

Life is very difficult quote Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power. Let difficulties know that you too are difficult.

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. — Charles Darwin

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer? — Sigmund Freud

There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life — Norman Vincent Peale

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Life Is Difficult Quotes

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. - Thales

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. — Thales

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa

I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that. — Matt Chandler

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult — Seneca

What I treasure most in life is being able to dream. During my most difficult moments and complex situations I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future. — Rigoberta Menchu

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself. — Nelson Mandela

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. — Katharine Hepburn

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. — Vincent Van Gogh

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories. — Bob Dole

Life Is Very Challenging Quotes

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature. — Jim Fowler

Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges. — Paulo Coelho

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid. — Nelson Mandela

I love being the leader of the United States. I'm, you know, thoroughly enjoying it. It's always a challenge, like life itself is a challenge. But it's something that I really love. And I think I've done a very good job at it. — Donald Trump

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment. — Adrienne Rich

The second challenge is to make sure that, growing up in this culture, they have a healthy view of life and God and Scripture. So, that's my other challenge. So, finding that balance is certainly no easy task but it can be very fulfilling. So, that's part of what we talk about in this book. — Alex Kendrick

Mel Gibson is my friend. I love Mel. He's not the person that I hear people are often trying to diminish. Whatever his challenges are in life, he still remains someone I'm very close to. — Danny Glover

My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged and very much a private thing and it continues to be. — Kelli O'Hara

My biggest musical dream is to keep playing all my life. There's nothing bigger than that and that's very challenging because you have to satisfy yourself at every stage. — Hiromi

... it isn't in my nature to cry for very long. It is one of the blessings of my life that things that are past -- are past. Yesterday's calamities are merely today's challenge. I can get down -- but I can't stay there. — Louella Parsons

Life Is Not Easy Quotes

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive — Ratan Tata

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel. — Nina Simone

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie

You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness. - Josemaria Escriva

You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness. — Josemaria Escriva

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. - George Bernard Shaw

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. — George Bernard Shaw

Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed. - Meg Cabot

Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed. — Meg Cabot

To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting. — Joseph Fort Newton

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. — Leon Trotsky

Life Is Hard Quotes

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker

Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me. — Sojourner Truth

The purpose of life is to glorify God in both good and hard times alike. — T. B. Joshua

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie

There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard. — Francis Chan

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you! — Charles R. Swindoll

Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself. — Phil Jackson

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. — Saint Augustine

Life Being Hard Quotes

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman

Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard. — CM Punk

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one — Bruce Lee

I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period. — J. Cole

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to you. And Stay. — Will Smith

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. — Anne Lamott

That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person. — Jimmy Iovine

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know. — Jim Harrison

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen

Difficult Life Quotes

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist. — Stephen Hawking

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man. — John F. Kennedy

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you. — Joel Osteen

Do not wish for an easy life. Wish for the strength to endure a difficult one. Achieve your life life goals.Bruce Lee

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders. — Adolf Eichmann

Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best. — Meb Keflezighi

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it - Mary Engelbreit

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it — Mary Engelbreit

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. — Abdul Kalam

There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate. — Stockwell Day

Life Is So Challenging Quotes

There is no life without challenge or adversity. So we have to decide whether to treat it as a friend or a foe. — Katrina Mayer

Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life. — Martina Navratilova

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community. — Paul Bloom

Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness. — Paramahansa Yogananda

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it. — Robin Hobb

An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act — Paulo Coelho

The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them. — Reba McEntire

Obviously, this isn't the time in my life that I would have chosen to do this, but I feel like life gives you these challenges for a reason. I feel so happy and glad to be in the place that I am. I really feel blessed. This is something I need to face and take control of. — Reese Witherspoon

Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure. — Avery Johnson

Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph. — Viktor E. Frankl

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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. — Elizabeth Lesser

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. — Joyce Brothers

We've got some very strong and robust ladies, but, when your life is at risk, I think the strain of that in a competitive situation will tell when you're trying to win. The mental stress I think would be pretty difficult for a lady to deal with in a practical fashion. I just don't think they have aptitude to win a Formula 1 race. — Stirling Moss

It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus. — Brother Lawrence

Are Americans afraid to face the reality that there is a significant portion of this world's population that hates America, hates what freedom represents, hates the fact that we fight for freedom worldwide, hates our prosperity, hates our way of life? Have we been unwilling to face that very difficult reality? — Sean Hannity

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. — James C. Collins

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. — Hugh Hefner

Rather than taking an easy route, taking a difficult route is more satisfying and interesting. Life is hard at times; life is easy at other times. It zig zags and spins round and round. It goes up and down When all that is done, you’ll probably smile and say, “I lived a very fun life — Minzy

We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life. — Lisa Hammond

Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away. — Selma Lagerlöf

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life. — Fay Weldon

You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life. — L. Ron Hubbard

I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though. — Richard Branson

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. — Max Beckmann

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless. — Tim Walker

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. — George Orwell

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life. — Carl Jung

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov

Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life. — Christopher Meloni

Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two. — George Eliot

To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life. — Joan Z. Borysenko

[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods of thought which are successful in science. — John B. S. Haldane

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy. — Irvin Kershner

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life. — Sebastian Barry

The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage. — Soren Kierkegaard

I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t. — J. K. Rowling

The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine. — Oscar Wilde

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy. — Cheryl James

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering. — Jordan Peterson

There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it. — Reese Witherspoon

It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long. — Yoko Ono

Putin has made life difficult for a lot of Russia's richest men; they don't like the sanctions; they don't like the war with the West. Many of them have houses and families and businesses in the West, and so I can see them being unhappy. But at the moment, the political system is so constructed that it would be very difficult for them to leave. That's not saying it couldn't change. — Anne Applebaum

I'm very concerned with the healing process of a song and music in general. I think that's why I make music - it heals me and I'm extremely sensitive to people who tell me that this or that song made them feel better or helped them go through a difficult time in their life. I think that music is almost medicine. I don't know if that's my philosophy, but that's my thought process. — Olivia Merilahti

In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at my age which is very difficult for a female actor. On top of it, being a minority, having come from China makes it harder. — Joan Chen

The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after the Big Bang would not have occurred in the fashion that was necessary for life to occur. When you look at that evidence, it is very difficult to adopt the view that this was just chance. — Richard Dawkins

When [Jean-Paul] Sartre was asked whether or not he would live under a communist regime he said, "No, for others it's fine, but for me, no." He said it! So it's hard to say just how intellectual his stance is. How can you think that never in your life would you go to live in a communist regime and still say it's fine for everybody? A very difficult thing, that, but Sartre managed it. — Catherine Camus

I was raised by my grandmother. She had a very difficult time, raised all her kids, my father and everybody. Listening to those stories and finding her so strong, poised. Anybody who came close to her was made to feel blessed. And at the same time, it didn't matter how strong a person was, in front of her, their head would go down. She carried through her life raising everybody. That is my model. — Rajashree Choudhury

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me. — Frank Luntz

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness. — Neil Peart

A real Master is not a teacher: a real Master is an awakener. His function is totally different from a teacher; his function is far more difficult. And only very few people can stay with a Master because to wake up after millions of lives is not an ordinary feat; it is a miracle. And to allow somebody to wake you up needs great trust, great surrender. — Osho

I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation. — Andy Serkis

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