"Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved."
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"Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small."
"it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts"
"I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other."
"It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own."
"It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility"
"What is easy to do is also easy not to do."
"I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do."
"Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden."
"To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work."
"It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself."
"He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)"
"They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces."
"You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring."
"Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having."
"I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world."
"People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it's very easy."
"What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good."
"It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know."
"You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever."