#icu

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#control #difficult #gestural #going #i

If someone is facing a difficult time, one of the kindest things you can do for him or her is to say, “I’m just going to love you through this. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#difficult-time #honor #joy #kindest #kindness

Our personal stories of perseverance contain immense wisdom that can assist others in finding their way to peace and illumination during difficult times. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#happiness #illumination #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #love

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race. ↗

— Stuart Rothenberg

#al gore #any #anybody #around #bush

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#demands #difficult #fidelity #greater #heroic

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#difficulty #inspirational #learning #science #value

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#christianity #difficulties #forgiveness #forgiveness

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#coping #difficulties #mountain #mountains #obstacle

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted. ↗

— Hayley Williams

#greatness #inspiration #inspirational #problems #struggle

Olivia had changed so much since then. She had changed in ways she would never have been able to anticipate. She had become the kind of person who was barely able to get out of bed in the morning without buckling beneath the tidal pull of the planets. ↗

— Kevin Brockmeier

#difficulty #change