#difficulties

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#enlightenment #humor #inspirational #road #faith

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

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly. ↗

— Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

#brilliance #darkness #difficulties #life #life

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #arguing #been #difficulties #doors

Out of difficulties grow miracles. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#grow #miracles #out

Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#already #aware #because #difficulties #done

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier. ↗

— Frank Delaney

#life #perseverance #the-matchmaker-of-kenmare #life

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

— Debbie Macomber

#effortless #love #love

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. ↗

— Sai Baba

#cleansing #complete #different #different kinds #difficulties

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

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