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• Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.

  R. D. Laing

  Book, Perfect One, Race

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• When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

  Henry Miller

  Trying, Resistance, Problem

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• I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

  David Lee Roth

  Thinking, Two, Success And Failure

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• It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, People, Parent

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• I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

  Emma Thompson

  Witty, Disease And Death, People

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• Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Sight, Upset, Sometimes

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• The most difficult thing for people to do is hear their own soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, People, Soul

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.68, Penguin

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• Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

  Laozi

  Kindness, Business, Design

  Laozi, Sepharial (1904). “The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king”

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• You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Philosophy, Brain, Mind

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• To find happiness, it is not quite difficult thing. It is just enough to distinguish the blue of the sky from the pink of peach flowers which are opening out.

  Che Lan Vien

  Happiness, Flower, Blue

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• I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now.

  Larry Rosenberg

  Weekend, Practice, Pay

  Larry Rosenberg (2004). “Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.

  Brian Epstein

  Moving, Thinking, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

  Brené Brown

  Courage, Weakness, Looks

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• I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.

  Nick Cave

  Religious, Believe, Views

  Interview with Talia Soghomonian, www.musicomh.com. August 3, 2008.

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• A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Lying, Men, Order

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• Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Reading, Attention

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Intention

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• I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, People, Challenges

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• For everything in life there is always a beginning and an end. This is the tough part the most difficult thing when you see that it’s coming: The end.

  Seve Ballesteros

  Tough, Ends, Difficult

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• The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.

  Isabella Thoburn

  Responsibility, Missionary, Language

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• Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.

  Kelly Slater

  Fatherhood, World, Maintaining

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• If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

  David Brooks

  Looks, Buying, Furniture

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

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• Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.

  Carey Mulligan

  People, Causes, Remakes

  Source: collider.com

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• The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

  Greg Bryk

  Enough Time, Television, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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