Tamora Pierce Quotes

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

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

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

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

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.

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.

I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

People are always going to be negative when they mention my name, but I can accept that and that's what makes it easier for me to go on.

You can't. You just have to.

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.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.