Jules Verne Quotes

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.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

It is best to live however one can be.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

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.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

What can't be helped must be endured.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

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.

Bear calamities with meekness.

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

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.