“Life is difficult. Life is difficult for everyone. No one escapes problems. Its called life.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“Life is difficult. Life is difficult for everyone. No one escapes problems. Its called life.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“Life is so difficult to catch.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.”
E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist
Source: A Room with a View / Howards End
“Question: Is life as difficult as it sometimes seems to be?”
Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader
Answer: Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
Fernbank, London, England February, 1972
1970s
“Life with another person is always difficult.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
“Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with”
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Die Kunst ist lang, das Leben kurz, das Urteil schwierig, die Gelegenheit flüchtig.
Bk. VII, Ch. 9
Cf. Hippocrates, Ars longa vita brevis, Aphorisms 1:1
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)
“It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
"Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus" (1904)
Florilegium
“The most difficult element is perhaps the lack of privacy in my life.”
Sania Mirza (1986) Indian tennis player
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