Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.”
Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist
Source: The Professor Of Desire
Dean Koontz book One Door Away from Heaven
Geneva Davis; chapter 1, p. 8
Source: One Door Away from Heaven (2001)
Context: Change isn't easy, Micky. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think. Changing the way you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, sweetie. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.
Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels
“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”
Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume
Source: Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
“Manners are easy," said Coningsby, "and life is hard.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book 3, Chap. 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844)
“If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
"Obstacles to Happiness", p. 78
Awareness (1992)
Context: Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture. To acquire happiness you don't have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired. Does anybody know why? Because we have it already. How can you acquire what you already have? Then why don't you experience it? Because you've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Do you know where these things come from? From having identified with all kinds of labels!
“How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how hard it is in life!”
Как легко, доктор, быть философом на бумаге и как это трудно на деле! <br class="br"> Act IV http://books.google.com/books?id=ENtYy7K9UmIC&q=%22%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BA+%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BA%D0%BE+%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80+%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%82%D1%8C+%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BC+%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B5+%D0%B8+%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA+%D1%8D%D1%82%D0%BE+%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE+%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%22&pg=PT51#v=onepage <br class="br">The Seagull (1896)