Ellen Gilchrist Quotes

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

One day it will be over, and I don't care.

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

The whole world might not understand. I don't really care.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

I don't mind what happens.

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

Bear calamities with meekness.

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

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

Sometimes you wake up the next morning after making a lot of bad decisions and have this nonchalant reaction like, 'These Things Happen' - what can I say?

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

Nothing fazes me anymore.

I don't look forward to anything. I take things as they come.

I've stopped questioning things and how things work.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.