#difficult

She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you. ↗

— Susan Wiggs

#life

Life can be as easy as you wish to make it, or as difficult as you are prepared to believe that it is. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#difficult #easy #life #prepared #life

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#africa #bad #bad review #decide #difficult

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face. ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#difficult #difficult time #face #film #i

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate: and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get--when our will strains after a path we may not follow--we need neither starve from inanition, not stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden fruit it longed to taste--and perhaps purer; and to hew out for the adventurous foot a road as direct and broad as the one Fortune has blocked up against us, if rougher than it. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#difficulty #diligence #perseverance #experience

Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#continuing #dad #day #difficult #every

It's a strange kind of irony. The things that affect us most are the things we can't remember" (from Swimming Upstream). ↗

— Ruth Mancini

#life-experiences #experience

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#enlightenment #humor #inspirational #road #faith

It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent. ↗

— Eugenie Anderson

#between #book #capturing #difficult #even

Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world. ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#forgiveness #hard #impossible #forgiveness