Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.
Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).
Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it.
A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you, because you will validate the existence of this dimension. You will see what your relationship to it is.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.
It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
It's sweet to hear, but anyone who says that they want to be the next John Cassavetes is crazy. He had it so tough. No one would want to walk a step in his shoes. Believe me - I wouldn't.
Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
I had no easy fights ever since I joined the UFC.
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.
Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.
On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.
If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view
Nothing in my life has necessarily been easy, but eventually I see where it's gotten me to, and I say, 'Okay, it's been worth it.'
The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
