„The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.“
Quelle: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 28
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US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Maler 1891 - 1980Ähnliche Zitate
— Mordechai Anielewicz Leader of the Jewish Combat Organization 1919 - 1943
The last letter from Mordecai Anielewicz , April 23 1943, written to Yitzhak Cukierman. [M.Kann], Na oczach swiata, ("In The Eyes of the World"), Zamosc, 1932 [i.e. Warszawa, 1943], pp. 33-34.
— Hermann Weyl German mathematician 1885 - 1955
Introduction<!-- p. 5 -->
Space—Time—Matter (1952)
Kontext: It is the nature of a real thing to be inexhaustible in content; we can get an ever deeper insight into this content by the continual addition of new experiences, partly in apparent contradiction, by bringing them into harmony with one another. In this interpretation, things of the real world are approximate ideas. From this arises the empirical character of all our knowledge of reality.
„Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.“
— Keanu Reeves Canadian actor, director, producer and musician 1964
„The most difficult thing is not to want anything.“
— Bram van Velde Dutch painter 1895 - 1981
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
„People are the most difficult thing in the world to change“
— Gena Showalter American writer 1975
Quelle: Oh My Goth
„According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.“
— Plutarch, buch Moralia
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
„The most difficult thing to reconcile is science and religion“
— Chris Carter American television and film producer, director and writer 1956
As quoted in "A close encounter with Chris Carter" at Salon (28 April 2000) http://www.salon.com/2000/04/28/chriscarter/
Kontext: The most difficult thing to reconcile is science and religion … And so we created a
dilemma for her character that plays right into Mulder’s hands. So that cross she wears,
which was there from the pilot episode, is all-important for a character who is torn
between her rational character and her spiritual side. That is, I think, a very smart
thing to do. The show is basically a religious show. It’s about the search for God. You
know, "The truth is out there." That’s what it’s about.
— U.G. Krishnamurti Indian philosopher 1918 - 2007
Part I: You Don't Have To Do A Thing
The Courage to Stand Alone (2001)
Kontext: Whatever pursuit you are indulging in, somewhere along the line it has to dawn on you that it is not leading you anywhere. As long as you want something, you will do that. That want has to be very, very clear. What do you want? All the time I ask you the question, "What do you want?" You say, "I want to be at peace with myself." That is an impossible goal for you because everything you are doing to be at peace with yourself is what is destroying the peace that is already there. You have set in motion the movement of thought which is destroying the peace that is there, you see. It is very difficult to understand that all that you are doing is the impediment, is the one thing that is disturbing the harmony, the peace that is already there.
„Be secret and exult,
Because of all things known
That is most difficult.“
— W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939
To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1723/
Responsibilities (1914)
Kontext: Now all the truth is out,
Be secret and take defeat
From any brazen throat,
For how can you compete,
Being honour bred, with one
Who, were it proved he lies,
Were neither shamed in his own
Nor in his neighbours’ eyes?
Bred to a harder thing
Than Triumph, turn away
And like a laughing string
Whereon mad fingers play
Amid a place of stone,
Be secret and exult,
Because of all things known
That is most difficult.
„Contentment, compassion, and tolerance are the pillars of peace.“
— Baba Hari Dass master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition 1923 - 2018
Quelle: Ashtanga Yoga Primer, 1981, p.58
„One of the most difficult things in the world is to learn to take a hint easily.“
— E. W. Howe Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor 1853 - 1937
County Town Sayings (1911), p111.
„Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them.“
— Donita K. Paul American writer 1950
Quelle: DragonKnight
„Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.“
— Dean Koontz, buch Odd Hours
Quelle: Odd Hours
„I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.“
— Martha Graham American dancer and choreographer 1894 - 1991
New York Times interview (1985)
Kontext: I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do. One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.
— W. H. Auden, buch The Dyer's Hand
"Interlude: West's Disease", p. 241
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
— H.P. Lovecraft American author 1890 - 1937
Fiction, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Kontext: The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
