#difficult

"Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult."

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

"Success is more difficult to handle than failure."

"It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance."

"I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this."

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."

"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times."

"Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor."

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

"There's not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content, but there's something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor."

"Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting."

"Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax."

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."

"We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up."

"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"