Ida Tarbell Quotes

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

Better to suffer than to die.

I've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you.

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.