Michel de Montaigne Quotes

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

You have to take the good with the bad in life.

Not everybody is going to understand you. You can't please everybody. That's just human nature. Everybody has their opinion, and that's going to be there. You deal with it. You take it in stride. You take the good with the bad, the bad with the good. That's part of life.

A man must take the fat with the lean.

A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

What can't be helped must be endured.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.

… there isn’t anything you can’t stand if you are only born and bred to it..

Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.