It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.
It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.
An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.
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