Stanislaus Leszczynski Quotes

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

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

The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

You can and you must expect suffering.