“We have to also realise that celibacy itself is not an easy life and I think anyone who tells you it's an easy life, will not be truthful. Celibacy is not an easy life but is a life that is worth living with the grace of God.”

“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

“If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.”

T. Harv Eker (1954) American writer

“No, darling! To die it's easy… But you have to stuggle for life!”

Art Spiegelman (1948) cartoonist from the United States

“Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.”

Nina Simone (1933–2003) American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist

“God has also given the sense to control. He has given us intelligence which could be utilised both for good and bad. I am not saying it’s easy for people to adopt celibacy—very few can do it.”

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

“I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

“I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“I never wanted an easy life.”

Jim Goad (1961) Author, publisher

“No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.”

Alistair MacLeod (1936–2014) Canadian author and professor of English