#difficulties

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#difficulties #dreams #sacrifice #success #dreams

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

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

#faith #forward #st-paul-s #faith

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity. ↗

— Criss Jami

#cute #difficulties #disobedience #evidence #funny

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. ↗

— Voltaire

#difficulties #life #life

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored. ↗

— John Lanchester

#difficulties #going-along #ignoring-things #life #problems

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#began #below #coming #concerned #decision

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#internal #language #mechanical #outcome #thought

With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#administration #again #become #club #commercial

I've always had difficulties with female characters. ↗

— John le Carre

#characters #difficulties #female #female characters #had