Anderson Cooper Quotes

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

You have to endure what you can't change.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

Certainly we're always rooting for our particular contingent moment to be a great one. Pain-free. But the more expansive vision has to include the idea that, even for us, sometimes our particular contingent moment is going to be horrific.

It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

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

There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.

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

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

There are those of us who believe out of that faith tradition that God never puts more on us than we can bear, and yet there are times, I think, particularly given what you were up against, that we have to question whether or not we have the capacity, the ability, the wherewithal, to actually endure it.

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

For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

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

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.