Difficult Quotes

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“It's harder to heal than it is to kill.”
― Tamora Pierce

“I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if one takes time to understand her, there is something beautiful to find, something simple to be loved. But she goes unloved, for being misunderstood.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light.”
― Barbara Marciniak, Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

“Believing is easy, but thinking is difficult. Thinking about why we believe, this is still more complicated. (" No longer in the middle")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn't mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand?”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."
This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.”
― Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because he will find an easy way to do it.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.
Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.
We have time to grow old.
The air is full of our cries.
But habit is a great deadener.
At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.
Let him sleep on.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Chase stared into the fire. That look, those eyes would haunt the mercenary for a while…occasionally, now and then, there was a kill that stayed with the mercenary, and he had just experienced another one of those.”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

“It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation
and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all go through. The trick is to celebrate the good times in advance of the difficult times. Always remember, good times await you after the difficult times pass….”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

“If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get out of that life. This is the answer to why the journey to fulfillment is often so difficult. However, if you can find a shortcut, a new path, you can get to the life you want much quicker. This is the premise of personal development, self-improvement and self-discovery..!”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

“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!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“It's not because it's difficult that we don't try. It's because we don't try, it's difficult.”
― Volksweisheitheit

“Do as you must -- you are not a child. But understand that there are many people willing to make your life more difficult. It is up to you to find a way to make things easier for yourself.”
― Nadia Hashimi, The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

“When I wasn’t in the barn garden, helping out, sorting seeds or checking hoses I’d spend time alone, usually in the bathroom adjacent to Joel’s room, staring into the shattered mirror as my hand gently caressed my baby bump.
More often than not I would cry. Not because my pregnancy upset me, or that my hormones were getting the better of me, but because I missed Joel, my baby’s father. That the baby would grow up without a dad made me anxious. Then again, if he had survived, what irreparable damage would he have suffered and how would his pain translate to his child? Jesus, I was studying myself in the very mirror he’d smashed the night he chose to take his own life.

The bump had grown slowly in the last couple of months. With these limited resources, I didn’t have the privilege of eating whatever I craved. Had that been the case, I was sure I would have been bigger by now. Still, I tried to eat as well and as often as I could and the size of my belly had proven that my attempts at proper nutrition were at least growing something in there.

Nothing made me happier than feeling my baby move. It was a constant source of relief for me. In our present circumstances, with no vitamins and barely any meat products save the recent stash of jerky Earl had found in an abandoned trailer, my diet consisted of berries, lettuce, and canned beans for the most part. Feeling the baby move inside me was an experience I often enjoyed alone. I would think of Joel then as well. Imagining his hand on my belly, with mine guiding his to the kicks and punches.”
― Michael Poeltl, Rebirth

“Do not be discouraged by the difficulty.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“they are notoriously difficult to understand, which is why they are respected more than they are actually studied”
― David R. Loy, Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution

“It occurred to me that losing one thing is way more difficult than losing everything, you noticed?”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“You can get good people quickly, but when they leave and you lose them, it is very difficult to get them back.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Hope is a terribly dangerous thing, for what if that which we so passionately hope for never comes to pass? What if the healing never comes, the relationship is never restored, the dream can’t be revived, and the horror of the inevitable remains horribly inevitable? These things I pondered. And yet, standing in a forest forced silent by the bitter hand of winter I was reminded that spring is never deterred despite how bitter winter’s hand might be. For it is not the ‘hope’ of spring. Rather it is the ‘fact’ of spring. And therefore we must remember that hope is fact despite how bitter the hand of life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life is difficult but stay determined.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita