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• Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Spiritual, Thinking, Practice

  Frithjof Schuon, James S. Cutsinger (2004). “Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life”, p.179, World Wisdom, Inc

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• If you avoid difficult things, great things will avoid you.

  George H. Brimhall

  Difficult, Great Things, Ifs

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• One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

  Joseph Addison

  Powerful, Mind, Important

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• In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Life Death, Difficult

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• Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Simplicity, Achieve, Difficult

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• It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Heart, Dark

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• By the grace of God I want to impart the Word, and bring you into a place where you will dare to act upon the plan of the Word, to so breathe life by the power of the Word that it is impossible for you to go on under any circumstances without his provision. The most difficult things that come to us are to our advantage from God's side. When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Grace, Goes On, Want

  Smith Wigglesworth (2000). “Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power”, p.470, Whitaker House

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• Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

  John McAfee

  Things In Life, Life Is, Making Money

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• Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.

  Demi Moore

  Divorce, World, Sometimes

  "Demi Moore says she is divorcing Kutcher", www.cnn.com. November 18, 2011.

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• It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it's never going to be enough.

  Keira Knightley

  Book, Love You, Two

  "Keira Knightley Talks Pride and Prejudice". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. November 8, 2005.

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• We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them.

  Les Miles

  Team, School, Player

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• I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Writing, Fiction, Biographies

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2009). “The Life of Charlotte Brontë”, p.10, OUP Oxford

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• It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Inspirational, Trying, Difficult

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• The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

  Anthony de Mello

  Love, Hate, Achievement

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.59, Image

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• The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

  Ilya Kovalchuk

  Organization, Devil, Fans

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• It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.

  Keith Michael

  Perfect, Simplicity, Design

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Tree, Mind, Age

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1936). “The doctor”

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• Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.

  Ralph Strangis

  Long, Acting, Way

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• Bringing a baby into the world is not like grilling enchiladas. It's a difficult thing.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Baby, World, Enchiladas

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's just so difficult to do that. We're just so used to looking at the real world, our brains instantly see when something is not quite right.

  Dave McKean

  Real, Brain, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.

  Christopher Walken

  Actors, Sticks, Difficult

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Mind, World

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.

  Laozi

  Science, Done, Mystery

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• There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

  Stormie Omartian

  World, Faces, Helping

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Woman”, p.14, Harvest House Publishers

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• This decision was something I have thought about for a long time going back to the lockout and spending the year in Russia. Though I decided to return this past season, Lou was aware of my desire to go back home and have my family there with me. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

  Ilya Kovalchuk

  Home, Past, Russia

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