Margaret Mitchell Quotes

Learn to get used to it. Eels get used to skinning.

They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.

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.

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

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.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

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.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it.

We wake up and are grateful for the day. Not taking away from the pain, because the pain will be there. But you live on.

What can't be helped must be endured.

You have to endure what you can't change.

Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

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.