#difficult

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority. ↗

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#discipline #every #freezing #fun #hard

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#difficulties #isolate #keep #life #men

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#acting #actress #after #anyway #because

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#despair #difficulty #fear #optimism #poetry

Life was never meant to be difficult, we just make it that way so that it fits into societies and our indoctrinated concept of what things should be like. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#difficult #indoctrination #life #societies #things

Life is beautiful and simple in many ways; but some of us insist on making it difficult. ↗

— Wazim Shaw

#complicated-life #difficulty #life #simplicity #beauty

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #dark-night-of-the-soul #enlightenment #love #meditation

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

#difficult #less #misfortunes #pleasure #remain

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗