#cult

If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

#american culture #chinese #culture #egyptian #german

The most difficult thing to do is drama. ↗

— Olivier Megaton

#difficult #difficult thing #drama #most #thing

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#difficulty #greatest #produce #share #unwillingness

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#had #i #justified #long #many

It is no accident that, of the early Jesuit scholars who were pioneers in making China's culture known in Europe, those who concerned themselves with the Book of Changes were all later declared to be insane or heretic. Indeed, to the Chinese themselves the study of the I Ching is not to be taken lightly. By an unwritten law, only those advanced in years regard themselves as ready to learn from it. Confucius is said to have been seventy years old when he first took up the Book of Changes. ↗

— Hellmut Wilhelm

#book-of-changes #esotericism #i-ching #the-occult #change

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest. ↗

— Mike Norton

#bare #bloom #creative #creativity #cultivate

Without security it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful. ↗

— Merle Oberon

#difficult #feel #look #security #without

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#being #difficult #much #re-elected #think

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#himself #his #keep #man #most

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one... ↗

— Cathryn Kemp

#addiction #addicts #brave #courage #difficult-life