Difficult - Quotes
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance, the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
The best gifts of all find the fewest admirers, and that most men mistake the bad for the good, - a daily evil that nothing can prevent, like a plague which no remedy can cure. There is but one thing to be done, though how difficult! - the foolish must become wise, - and that they can never be. The value of life they never know; they see with the outer eye but never with the mind, and praise the trivial because the good is strange to them.
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
It is difficult to say [...] what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
If you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself then the truth will not be withheld from you.
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
Fjodor Mihajlovics Dosztojevszkij
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
You prefer to be natural? [...] It is such a very difficult pose to keep up.