Jeanne Calment Quotes

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

Do not kick against the pricks.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.

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

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

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

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

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

It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.

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.

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

This, too, will pass.

The more you complain the longer God lets you live

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

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. . . .

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!

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.

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.