It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
All things are difficult before they are easy.
—Thomas Fuller
Percentage wise, it is 100% easier not to do things than to do them, and so much fun not to do them—especially when you were supposed to do them. In terms of instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.
—John Mulaney
How can one accept—let alone enjoy—aging in a culture where God is twenty-five; where advertisements are filled with twenty-somethings in halter tops and tight t-shirts, unless the ad is for a drug to treat incontinence, high blood pressure, or elevated cholesterol? What about the wisdom of age? What about endurance? What about the beauty of a face etched by years that were not always easy?
—Genie Zeiger
There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
—Joseph de Maistre
I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.
—Louis Sachar in Holes
Always be willing to love again. Loving once is easy. Loving twice is harder, but love anytime is always worth it.
—Gwendolyn Heasley in Don't Call Me Baby
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
—Dwight L. Moody
I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And, honey, that ain't easy either.
—Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, at 104
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
—Laurence Sterne