“Of course you make mistakes and we all know that marriage is difficult at times. It is about working through it. We have come up against tough times. But we know each other better than anyone else knows us. And we talk. Do we stay together because it is a brand? Of course not. We stay together becau…”— David Beckham, theguardian.com
“I’m the only one who had to do the perp walk. I’m going to have to figure my way out of this and I’m going to have to do it one joke at a time.”— Kathy Griffin, theguardian.com
“It’s not easy to bring a new idea into existence. It’s not easy even to stand up and talk about why things need to change. I know that from my own experience as a young adolescent searching for my own voice. It’s a long and difficult process, and I think it’s fair to say that it’s never finished. At…”— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org
“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.”— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org
“My Countrymen: It is a relief to feel that no heart but my own can know the personal regretan bitter sorrow over which I have been borne to a position so suitable for others rather than desirable for myself.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“Life is a challenge! It does not matter what difficulties we face. Our worth is measured by how we face those difficulties.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“When Michael started, it was a different world. But because Michael kept going, because he didn’t accept limitations, because he refused to let people decide his boundaries, he opened up the whole world. In the music world, he put on one glove, pulled his pants up and broke down the color curtain.”— Al Sharpton, youtube.com
“It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Don’t miss out on something that could be great just because it could also be difficult.”— Anonymous, thelovejournals.com
“…Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.”— Joan Bauer, goodreads.com
“The old adage that the life of men is like a being at the point where two roads meet refers not only to the general course of life but to individual action. For no sooner do we undertake the least thing than we are pulled hither and yon, and we mix together opposing counsels as though tossed by a st…”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you”— John Updike, amazon.com
“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing–a very hard thing… But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?”— Robin McKinley, amazon.com
“Love isn’t something you can legislate. Love is more than charts and graphs and matching interests. Love is messy and complicated and it is a mistake to deny its random magic.”— Amy Engel, amazon.com