"Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness."
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"Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult."
"It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it."
"He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties."
"Honour the difficult."
"You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love."
"Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences."
"I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult."
"It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves."
"Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand."
"I just got back from New York, and I realized in New York, it's very difficult to hear a New York accent. It's almost impossible, actually - everybody seems to speak like they're from the Valley or something. When I grew up, you could tell what street in Dublin someone's from by the way they talked."
"If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people."
"You have your personal life and you have work life; when it's combined, it's difficult."
"It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any."
"Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover."
"We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other."
"It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves."
"If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill."
"Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth."
"It is very difficult to tell the truth."