“Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.”

“For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.”

James C. Collins (1958) American business consultant and writer

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

“There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.”

Charles Bukowski book Hot Water Music

“Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel.”

Noah Gordon book The Last Jew

“Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul – thus I have passed blindly many things which belong to the real and political life. I assume, though, that there are two worlds: the world of spiritual life and the world of political reality. Both are manifestations of life which may sometimes coincide but are very different in principle. I must leave it to you [the audience] to decide which is the more important.”

Max Beckmann (1884–1950) German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer

“And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

“Life is difficult. Life is difficult for everyone. No one escapes problems. Its called life.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“Modern life is very difficult for people who are unprepared. But this new environment will eventually facilitate more realistic relationships between people.”

Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) Italian film director and screenwriter

“She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer