“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”