Difficult Life Quotes - Page 2

• If you can't enjoy the time between golf shots, then you are going to have a pretty difficult life because most of you life is the time spent in-between.

  Peter Jacobsen

  Golf, Life Is, Shots

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• Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.

  Rob Thurman

  Fall, Hands, Wind

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• A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

  Ben Okri

  Men, Able, Sometimes

  "The Famished Road". Book by Ben Okri, 1991.

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• So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Giving Up, Feet

  "Stephen Hawking: physics would be 'more interesting' if Higgs boson hadn't been found" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2013.

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• More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress

  Brian Weiss

  Loss, Opportunity, Soul

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• Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

  Jonathan Ames

  Language, Difficult, Knows

  Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.204, Pushkin Press

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• Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you..." "Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wow, Wonder, Forget

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• Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?

  J. K. Rowling

  Wow, Wonder, Difficult

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• Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.

  Derren Brown

  Kindness, People, Humanity

  "Confessions of a Conjuror". Book by Derren Brown, 2009.

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• My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mother, Children, Father

  Letter to M.M. Chekhov, July 29, 1877.

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• Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

  Hippocrates

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 384, 1895.

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• So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

  Victor Hugo

  Rocks, Agony, Desire

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.112, Wildside Press LLC

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• All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Trying, Difficult

  Hermann Hesse (2012). “Demian”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Your mission in life is to have a "why" to live for, to use your best qualities in the service of the kind of world in which you would like to live. That is your purpose. This is what life expects of you. And when you live according to your purpose, setting goals that support it, you may find the pieces of your life drawn together into a strong internal whole. Then, no matter how difficult life's experiences may prove to be, you can be able to endure and even prevail.

  John Templeton

  Strong, Goal, Support

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• In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

  Bahman Ghobadi

  War, Hardship, Directors

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• Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Opportunity, Long

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Mother, Ocean, Difficult

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• The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Pain, Drama

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

  Melissa Bank

  Way, Kind, Difficult

  "A polished act" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 1999.

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• In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.

  Atul Gawande

  Meaningful, Pain, Sleep

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.162, Profile Books

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• I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.

  Ger Duany

  Challenges, Age, Young

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• My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Revenge, Dad, Struggle

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Inner Peace, Inner Strength, Attention

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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