#difficult

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature. ↗

— Cao Yu

#difficult #digest #ideas #literature #number

More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress ↗

— Brian L. Weiss

#growth #obstacles #soul #life

These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#god #mystery-of-life #life

Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#difficulty #honesty #humans #love #love

Love takes something that's difficult and makes it feel so effortless. ↗

— Debbie Macomber

#effortless #love #love

When all that you've tried, leaves nothing but holes inside. ↗

— Joe Brooks

#futile #holes #holes-inside #lyrics #music

Well, God knows you're barely standing but you've got to carry this heavy load. ↗

— Joe Brooks

#life #lyrics #music #these-broken-hands-of-mind #music

... While much recent historicist criticism has assumed early nineteenth-century readers attuned to subtle ideological nuances in poetry, actual responses from readers often come closer to clulessness. ... It is no surprise that no one understood Blake, but other poets fared not much better. ... Coleridge's 'Christabel' was 'the standing enigma which puzzles the curiosity of literary circles. What is it all about?', while another reviewer asked about Shelley, 'What, in the name of wonder on one side, and of common sense on the other, is the meaning of this metaphysical rhapsody about the unbinding of Prometheus?'. Even Keats was condemned for 'his frequent obscurity and confusion of language' and his 'unintelligible quaintness'. Byron, never to be outdone, boasted in 'Don Juan' that not only did he not understand many of his fellow poets, he did not understand himself either: 'I don't pretend that I quite understand / My own meaning when I would be very fine.' ... ↗

— Andrew Elfenbein

#incomprehensible #poetry #romantic-poets #romantic

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#because #creates #difficulty #effort #i

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#bad #combination #conjure #could #dangerous