“How strangely easy difficult things are!”

“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister

“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

“560. All things are difficult, before they are easy.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”

Samuel Johnson book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“It’s strange,” Moominmamma thought. “Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that’s the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.”

Tove Jansson book Moominpappa at Sea

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

“It is very easy to be a skilled man at the head of a powerful country. The difficult thing is to be one when representing a weak country.”

Daniel Salamanca (1863–1935) President of Bolivia (1863-1935)