Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
Mooji
Spiritual Teacher
"Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet, Novelist
"Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation."
Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"
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"Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you."
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"In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find."
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"Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all."
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"Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions."
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"To understand is difficult; to act is easy."
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"Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small."
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"The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best."
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"A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life."
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"I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't."
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"It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God."
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"It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused"
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"It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily."
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"The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero."
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"Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?"
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"It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are."
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"It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble."
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"To have to hear a woman's voice, and start to make a choice just based on that, is difficult."
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
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"Puberty was definitely difficult for me."
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"It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves."
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