The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
Publilius SyrusTag: pleasure difficulty
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
Alain de BottonTag: practice contentment difficulty ease
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
René DescartesTag: difficulty resolution
These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged.
Grover ClevelandTag: difficulty president public-service
I've figured out why they call it a trial. Because you try all you can to pull through it.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: endurance difficulty struggle trial challenge hardship test richelle richelle-goodrich
Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice.
Anita RenfroeTag: difficulty drama-queen
Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.
Junot DíazTag: honesty love difficulty humans challenge
These are the few ways we can practice humility:
To speak as little as possible of one's self.
To mind one's own business.
Not to want to manage other people's affairs.
To avoid curiosity.
To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.
To pass over the mistakes of others.
To accept insults and injuries.
To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.
To be kind and gentle even under provocation.
Never to stand on one's dignity.
To choose always the hardest.
Tag: acceptance selfish humility curiosity mistakes forgiveness difficulty quiet injury gossip humble forgotten dislike insult dignity rejection kind cheerful gentle bossy provocation
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SenecaTag: difficulty dare
Difficulty itself may be a path toward concentration — expended effort weaves us into a task, and successful engagement, however laborious, becomes also a labor of love. The work of writing brings replenishment even to the writer dealing with painful subjects or working out formal problems, and there are times when suffering’s only open path is through an immersion in what is. The eighteenth-century Urdu poet Ghalib described the principle this way: ‘For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river — / Unbearable pain becomes its own cure.’
“Difficulty then, whether of life or of craft, is not a hindrance to an artist. Sartre called genius ‘not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.’ Just as geological pressure transforms ocean sediment into limestone, the pressure of an artist’s concentration goes into the making of any fully realized work. Much of beauty, both in art and in life, is a balancing of the lines of forward-flowing desire with those of resistance — a gnarled tree, the flow of a statue’s draped cloth. Through such tensions, physical or mental, the world in which we exist becomes itself. Great art, we might say, is thought that has been concentrated in just this way: honed and shaped by a silky attention brought to bear on the recalcitrant matter of earth and of life. We seek in art the elusive intensity by which it knows.
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