Charles Spurgeon Quotes

There is really only one way to deal with Misery. Accept her presence. Like most experiences in life, we must acknowledge the passage gracefully and let her move through our lives because she brings with her a hidden gift.

When I win, I'm happy. When I lose, I'm also happy. I'm grateful for this life I have to live. It's a great life.

Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

You have to make peace with life.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

I just show up and try to find the joy in every situation.

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.

Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit.

Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.