Walter Savage Landor Quotes

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.

Sometimes, life is unfair, and you have to suck it up and move on and not use it as an excuse.

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

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

To maken vertue of necessite.

We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

But what is to be done? Is it possible to infect ourselves on purpose just in order to have the satisfaction of dying beautifully and tranquilly? No! What is to be done? We must live while we are alive, eat dry bread if there is no roast beef, know many women if it is not possible to love a woman, and, in general, we must not dream about orange trees and palms, when under foot are snowdrifts and the cold tundra.

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.

To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

What you cannot control, you must accept.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

Those that yield are not always weak

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it