It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. ››ALWAYS HAVE FAITH IN YOURSELF A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ››Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me. ››The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ››We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are. ››No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive. ››If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes. ››Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ››When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done. ››People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential. ››It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. ››Anything beyond your capacity will necessarily change your capacity, because so long as everything is within your limits, you don't know what is beyond them. And everything concerning God and God-realisation is beyond limit. So in this way great suffering and being plagued with terrible problems are beneficial. ››Someone asked, 'Why is there suffering?' Baba gave this succinct reply: 'Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.' ››To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do, therefore, is to strive, and persevere, and never give up. ››When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on - for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn. ››Life is not easy for any of us. Early on in life I decided that I would not be vanquished and that I would remain cheerful in the face of circumstances. ››You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I am glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy. ››There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You can alter the difficulties, or you can alter yourself meeting them. ››I know Got will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ››If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. ››The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ››
