Andrew Lang Quotes

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was gentle and quiet in intense bodily suffering, almost in proportion as she had been restless and depressed when there had been no real cause for grief.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.