Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

We are difficult to come by and a danger to ourselves.

Our fathers are often mysteries to us and therefore we are often mysteries to ourselves.

Difficult personalities are a mirror for the places where we get stuck in judgment, fear, and confusion.

If you are uncomfortable — in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused — you don't have a problem, you have a life. Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.

To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.

It is not easy to conceive the difficulties we have had.

The hardest thing in the world is to be ourselves.

Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was every supposed to be easy.

We are more than all our knowledge. What we know confronts an infinitely encompassing unknown. The world is a mystery, and each of us is a mystery to himself.

Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

Do you not realize, Hastings, that each and everyone of us is a complete mystery with layers. We each try to judge each other, but nine times out of ten, we are wrong.

Of course our society in general always presents us with different challenges, and it’s easier to be not who we are but to go on the level, to go down to the level which is less human, it’s more difficult to be humans than not to be humans.