Easier Quotes - Page 14

• I've lost someone, too; someone I loved. I know how you feel." - Does it get easier? "Yes. But you'll never be the same again.

  Richelle Mead

  Doe, How You Feel, Lost

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• ... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Believe, Feels, Wanted

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Being Yourself, Dark, Night

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.441, Penguin

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• I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. “At these times, I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Focus, Feelings

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• Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

  Vaclav Havel

  Identity, World, Way

  Vaclav Havel, John Keane (2016). “The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe”, p.31, Routledge

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• People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

  Michael Robotham

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reputation, Bad Reputation, Conscience

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• ...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Connections, Life Is

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.13, Penguin

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• There is something about someone trusting you enough with their secrets that it makes it easier to trust them. It’s like they’re opening their heart and in return yours should open up to them, too.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Heart, Secret, Return

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• It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

  Anne Carson

  People, Together, Stories

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.228, Vintage

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• If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

  Tim Tebow

  Temptation, Events, Ugly

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• And if it (life) were easier, would i have given my heart so fully to God? Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers

  Francine Rivers

  Heart, Given, Offers

  Francine Rivers (2010). “Her Mother's Hope”, p.46, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

  David Levithan

  Getting What You Want, Want, What You Want

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.116, Egmont UK

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• There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.

  Fred Rogers

  Believe, Choices, Feelings

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.128, Penguin

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• She said people found running to something easier than running from something.

  Sarah Mlynowski

  Running, People, Found

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• The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.

  Alice Munro

  Believe, Tragedy, Trying

  "Dear Life". Book by Alice Munro, 2012.

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• There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Mistake, Fall

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• Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a temporary one, it can demand that you make painful changes. Conceal your truths within words. Natural ambiguity will protect you then.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Believe, Demand

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

  Nora Ephron

  Thinking, Get Over, Ifs

  "After the Love Is Gone" by Nora Ephron, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 2005.

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• Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

  Robin Hobb

  Opposites, Choices, Speak

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.183, Spectra

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• When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

  Candace Bushnell

  Home, Want, Littles

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• It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one.

  Cassandra Clare

  Groups, Individual, Mass

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fool, Persons, Convinced

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 16, 2014

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• Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Heart, May, Want

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• It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Crazy, Mad, Being Crazy

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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