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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting. ↗

— T. H. White

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. ↗

— J. P. Morgan

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We must learn from our struggles. ↗

— Roger Thurow

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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

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You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent. ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

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A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forward— that a way, however narrow and difficult, would in time open— predominated over other feelings: its influence hushed them so far, that at last I became sufficiently tranquil to be able to say my prayers and seek my couch. I had just extinguished my candle and lain down, when a deep, low, mighty tone swung through the night. At first I knew it not; but it was uttered twelve times, and at the twelfth colossal hum and trembling knell, I said: “I lie in the shadow of St. Paul’s. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

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Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light. ↗

— Barbara Marciniak

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When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

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Easy and difficult things are juat small parts of life, the rest are what have to be done. ↗

— Alief Moulana

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