Difficult Paths Quotes

Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem.

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise.

True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.

Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in nature must unfold in their particular way and become themselves despite all opposition.

You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.

If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions.

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

Public life is like a long journey, in which we have immense tracks of waste countries to pass through for a very few grand and beautiful prospects.

Sometimes, the easiest route is not the best route.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Public men have, however, to pick their steps as best they may, for the straight path would lead too often to the cliff-edge.

The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.

I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.

Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.