Definition of Difficulties:
Things that are hard to accomplish, deal with, or understand.
Synonyms for Difficulties:
Complications, snags, drawbacks, pitfalls, handicaps, impediments, hurdles, etc.
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If you think God has sent any of your difficulties to you, you are giving power to your troubles, and this makes it very difficult to get rid of them. –Sermon on the Mount p.129 | More…
To be alive means to experience difficulties, conflicts, challenges from many directions.
Difficulties are opportunities for advancement, for increased self-awareness, for self-fulfilment.
We need challenges in order to grow; without growth we wither.
Happiness is the bounty for facing the momentarily unhappy conditions. –Each Day A New Beginning/Karen Casey | More…
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity. –Ella Wheeler Wilcox
