Myrtle Reed Quotes

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

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.

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

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable.

Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.

Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.