#difficulties

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ↗

— Peter Marshall

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There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties. ↗

— Lionel K. Murphy

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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. ↗

— Dan Rather

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A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas. ↗

— Paul Valery

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There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties. ↗

— Calvin Klein

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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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

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When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons. ↗

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

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

— T. Scott McLeod

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