Difficulty Quotes

“The days without difficulty are the days you do not improve.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“I had to let her go. She's not coming back. The distance is too great. The mountain between us is the one mountain I cannot climb.

I thought you should know.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“You have been through a lot, if you've been through my poetry”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“When life gives you lemons, make champagne and leave the whole world wondering how you did it!”
― Marjory Sheba

“St. Augustine said, "The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties." There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day - seeing our ordinary life as greatly desirable, even wonderful, in the light of the terrible disruption that has taken place. Difficulty opens our eyes to pleasures we had taken for granted.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“That reminds me why I gave up Dungeons and Dragons. There were too many monsters. Back in the old days you could go around a dungeon without meeting much more than a few orcs and lizard men, but then everyone started inventing monsters and pretty soon it was a case of bugger the magic sword, what you really need to be the complete adventurer was the Marcus L. Rowland fifteen-volume guide to Monsters and the ability to read very, very fast, because if you couldn’t recognize them from the outside you pretty soon got the chance to try looking at them from the wrong side of their tonsils.”
― Terry Pratchett, Alien Christmas

“The most sacred invitation that a person can extend to us is to invite us into their pain. But that means that we have to choose to knock on a door that we often prefer to pretend is not there.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Solace is not meant to be an answer, but an invitation, through the door of pain and difficulty, to the depth of suffering and simultaneous beauty in the world that the strategic mind by itself cannot grasp nor make sense of.”
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

“What exactly did Simone Weil mean when she said, When you have to make a decision in life, about what you should do, do what will cost you the most.

Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who were these people?”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

“I have learned to accept it, even ask for it, this "more than I can handle." Because in these times, God shows Himself victorious. He reminds me that all of this life requires more of Him and less of me. God does give us more than we can handle. Not maliciously, but intentionally, in love, that His glory may be displayed, that we may have no doubt of who is in control, that people may see His grace and faithfulness shining through our lives.

And as I surrender these situations to Him, watch Him take over and do the impossible, I am filled with joy and peace - so much more than I can handle.”
― Katie J. Davis, Kisses from Katie

“Meanwhile, as I think about dumb stuff, the situation is getting worse.”
― Hirukuma, Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon, Vol. 1

“The extraordinary thing about having absolute conviction that you’re doing the right thing is that you’ll do it – whatever that may be, no matter how difficult, dangerous or improbable.”
― Jan Golembiewski, Magic

“At times, the frontier seemed so precarious, pioneers felt like they would be better off standin’ bare-assed in a nest of rattlers!”
― Lee E. Hollingsworth

“Work is freighted with difficulty and possibility of visible failure, failure to provide, to succeed, to make a difference, to be seen and to be seen to be seen. Work, therefore is robust vulnerability, and a good part of the time, a journey leading us through very unbeautiful private and public humiliations.”
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

“God will always give you more than you can bear alone, because He doesn't want you to bear it without Him.”
― Robert Rogers, Into the Deep

“Difficulty is an illusion that separates the person from the action, but once you use your heart as the bridge to that action, all difficulty vanishes.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“In worldly life, the difficulties are due to ignorance of the Self (aGnan). 'We' have never seen anything as a difficulty anywhere.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Who Am I?

“... some of the most significant moments of growth, change, and transformation I've experienced were born in times of challenge and difficulty. This leaves me with a choice: I can fight the natural order of things, crying "Why God? Why?" or I can learn to go with the flow.”
― Joan Ball, Flirting with Faith: My Spiritual Journey from Atheism to a Faith-Filled Life

“I’ve been writing like a madman for the past hour. I must say it was not easy to write the words, let alone think them.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Every great man has gone through this shaking while trying to convert their time”
― Sunday Adelaja, No One Is Better Than You

“It is very difficult to embrace tolerance towards people who are different if everyone in the environment is the same”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century

“Difficulty is the price we pay for everything worth having.”
― Jonathan Heimberg

“No, I don’t want to live a fairy-tale life fashioned of pixie-dust and enchanted forests. I would much rather forge a life out of the dust and grime of this soiled existence, for to fashion a life out of materials such as these is truly magic.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When your target is too far away from you, you can make the distance shorter by ignoring the distance! When you ignore the difficulties, you obtain a great power!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Expecting difficulties is wise, if that usually gives you the strength to continue, and foolish, if that usually takes away the courage to begin.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“No matter the difficulty, do not give up.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is always difficult to surrender what exists for what might be.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is a Dance

“The difficulty can be overcome with diligent determination.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When faced with a problem, pray! You find the power to dissolve the difficulty.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita