Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

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

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

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.

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

I accept reality and dare not question it.

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

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

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.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

To maken vertue of necessite.

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.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

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

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