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It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but...

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M
Muriel SparkThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories...

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He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very ...

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Philip PullmanFairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a pic...

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When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

In some mysterious way, in all his brokenness, he reveals to us our own brokenness, our difficulties...

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Rick SantorumBella's Gift: How One Little Girl Transformed Our Family and Inspired a Nation

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a proble...

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Robert FulghumUh-oh - Some Observations From Both Sides Of The Refrigerator Door

Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way

Don't wait for the right answer and the golden path to present themselves.This is precisely why you'...

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These and other inanimate things she saw and experienced. They were real to her. She knew them. They...

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When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly s...

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Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convin...

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

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa...

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For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually...

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Sometimes life just hits you, right in the face. And it’s alright. Because I, for one, think it’s ki...

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We're in a free fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. ...

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

It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they coul...

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I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different wo...

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Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiri...

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