Difficulty Quotes
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“I remember the awe and terror I felt as my awareness started to transition from the magical world of Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy to one of the Big Bang, supernovas, and the apparent finality of death.
• Why is it that to function in society with strength and efficiency, we need to ignore the incomprehensible miracles that surround us constantly? Why is it that to function in the world, we must take on an oblivious self-confidence by placing ourselves in a tiny world, a small and limited subset of reality? Why is it that we abandon awe and limit ourselves to the prison that is right in front of our noses, guided primarily by our animal instincts while ignoring our full perception of the world? We have the capability to project our conscious thought backward or forward billions of years yet act as if all that matters is the past and/or immediate future. ”
― Floating in Darkness - A Journey of Evolution
• Why is it that to function in society with strength and efficiency, we need to ignore the incomprehensible miracles that surround us constantly? Why is it that to function in the world, we must take on an oblivious self-confidence by placing ourselves in a tiny world, a small and limited subset of reality? Why is it that we abandon awe and limit ourselves to the prison that is right in front of our noses, guided primarily by our animal instincts while ignoring our full perception of the world? We have the capability to project our conscious thought backward or forward billions of years yet act as if all that matters is the past and/or immediate future. ”
― Floating in Darkness - A Journey of Evolution

“Torn between fear of retribution and fear of disaster, he stood unmoving, unable to leave...”
― The Clouds Still Hang
― The Clouds Still Hang

“Rules for making the world:
1. Stand up & do the thing you see needs doing.
2. That's it.
(If it was easy, we'd be having a different conversation.)
—Action Plan”
― Theories of Everything
1. Stand up & do the thing you see needs doing.
2. That's it.
(If it was easy, we'd be having a different conversation.)
—Action Plan”
― Theories of Everything
“Sorrow is also a terrible weapon of destruction, one that kills from the inside out.”
― Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969
― Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

“The secret is not in your hand or your eye or your voice, my aunt told me once. The secret is in your heart. Of course, she said, knowing that doesn't make it any easier.
—Secret Heart”
― Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings
—Secret Heart”
― Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

“Simon developed a keen interest in Scouts, he loved the ethos, the friendly company of the other boys.”
― The Clouds Still Hang
― The Clouds Still Hang

“It has nothing to do with what the mountain in front of us is. Rather, it has everything to do with what God is going to do to it.”
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“The one who lets go
of an action
because of difficulty,
or fear of bodily pain,
thus carries out letting go
in a rajasic way,
and will not attain
the fruit of that letting go.”
― The Bhagavad Gita
of an action
because of difficulty,
or fear of bodily pain,
thus carries out letting go
in a rajasic way,
and will not attain
the fruit of that letting go.”
― The Bhagavad Gita

“If you have managed to overcome your difficulties, then make a note of that process because that’s your consciously patented formula for invincibility.”
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“… you misunderstand ‘ease.’ I think whoever said that means joy, not the quality of being easy. And difficult things can bring joy. And joy can bring ease.”
― The Ensemble
― The Ensemble

“Pain believes itself to be the force that pushes everyone away. But God says that pain is the invitation that He could never throw away.”
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“But now you know the specific cause of your difficulty with [certain tasks] and can explore ways around the overarousal they create. So there's really very little that you can't do if you find a way to do it in your own style.”
― The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
― The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

“And while a difficult past may seem at first to hamper our living our life's purpose, sometimes it serve the purpose, too. Or it is the purpose—to fully experience and understand a certain kind of human problem.”
― The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
― The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
“The impact of art is not in relation with the difficulty of craft but with the clarity and veracity of the underlying thought.”
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“OPPORTUNITY
"opportunity isn't far but it usually
hides in difficult circumstances and
it takes optimism to figure out."
#c9_fm”
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"opportunity isn't far but it usually
hides in difficult circumstances and
it takes optimism to figure out."
#c9_fm”
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