Easy Life Quotes

• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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• O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Men, Miracle

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Pain, Mean

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.120, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Goal

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 08, 2015

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• An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Men, Challenges, Doe

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• Life is not easy. Life is very harsh. We have to be strong. Otherwise, life will destroy us.

  Osama Alomar

  Strong, Easy, Harsh

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Conformity, Losing Yourself

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• Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strength, Men, Life Being Hard

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• An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

  Oliver North

  Meaningful, Life Is, Easy

  Oliver North, Bob Hamer (2015). “Counterfeit Lies”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

  William Kent Krueger

  Strong, Easy, Used

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• Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They become weak and inefficient when they cease to struggle. Some need a series of defeats before developing the strength and courage to win a victory.

  Victorio

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.

  Tyron Woodley

  Mma, Chance, Easy

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• It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.

  John Muir

  Dream, Adventure, Alive

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• An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

  Richard Bach

  Life, Matter, Easy

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• You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Love You, Heart, Needs

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• You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you there. Perfect contentment is never to be found, in whatever place and condition one may be. This life is full of annoyances and troubles both of mind and of body; it is a state of continual agitation, which snatches peace of mind from those who think they possess it and eludes those who seek it. Did Our Lord lead an easy life?

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Thinking, Perfect

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• Don't hope for a life without problems. An easy life results in a judgmental and lazy mind.

  Kyongho

  Lazy, Mind, Problem

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• The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

  Hannah Arendt

  Life, Pain, Effort

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

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• When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

  Hermann Hesse

  Home, Tree, Looks

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• I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

  Paloma Faith

  Emotional, Class, People

  "Paloma Faith: 'I have an inability to lie'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Interesting, Life Is, Easy

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• Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Art, Struggle, Science

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.87, Springer Science & Business Media

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• O, do not pray for easy lives.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.

  Albert Einstein

  Home, Men, White

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.37, Open Road Media

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