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• It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future

  Daniel Webster

  Fall, Ambition, Fighting

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• In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.

  Alice Hoffman

  Grieving, Losing Friends, Done

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, People, Library

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You know,” he said, “this is why I love you so much.” Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. “What do you mean?” You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.

  J.R. Ward

  Love You, Mean, Want

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.591, Penguin

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• We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light spilled from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Morning, Memories, Night

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've told stories in the past, painted pictures with words, told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lying, Past, Men

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• When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

  Mary Pipher

  Pain, Heart, Telling The Truth

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• Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.

  Holly Black

  Mom, Night, Forbidden Love

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• It seemed to me that the people who made the rules of the road had figured out everything that would help a person drive safely right down to having a sign that tells you you're passing through a place where deer cross. Somebody should stick up some signs on the highway of life. CAUTION: JERKS CROSSING. Blinking yellow lights when you're about to to something stupid. Stop signs in front of people who could hurt you. Green lights shining when you're doing the right thing. It would make the whole experience easier.

  Joan Bauer

  Hurt, Stupid, Light

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• Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind...We behold the face of nature bright with gladness...We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Bird, Singing

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• Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.

  Ann Brashares

  Love You, People, Mad

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Feb 04, 2010

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• It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.

  Dodie Smith

  Thinking, House, Different

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.172, Random House

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• The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.

  Hermann Hesse

  Eye, Men, Blue

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dog, Cat, Should Have

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• Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.

  Kim Harrison

  Jobs, Soul, Management

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• It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Spiritual, Companionship, Guides

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• The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

  Pema Chodron

  Emotional, Meditation, Reactions

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• There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Self Esteem, Mirrors, Laughing

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.208, Penguin

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• It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

  Arthur Phillips

  Location, Ifs

  Arthur Phillips (2002). “Prague: A Novel”, p.126, Random House

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• The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.

  C. S. Lewis

  Impossible Things, Self, Hands

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Long Ago, Patient, Anxious

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• I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.

  Gregory Maguire

  Flying, Rolling, Tasks

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• Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking, People, Meg

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.24, Macmillan

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• How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.

  Cameron Dokey

  Love You, Color, Would Be

  Cameron Dokey, Mahlon F. Craft (2008). “Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of "The Magic Flute"”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

  Fred Rogers

  Letting Go, Skills, Roots

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.41, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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