Ofra Haza Quotes

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.'

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Well, you've got to take the bitter with the better.

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.

It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

Bear calamities with meekness.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

Bad things happen. Cope!

I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.

When you have tough times, and when you learn you can't be perfect in every situation, it's hard to accept, you know, because I still do expect that. But you just have to, because, you know, it's not about the situation. It's how you deal with it. You always have a choice.

If they come after me and my bowling you get a bit down. But when I am fielding I think about it and there are worse things that can happen. I take in the atmosphere a bit and think this is not too bad.