Charlotte Bronte Quotes

We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

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

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

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.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.

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.

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

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

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.