Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

The blessing in life is when you find the torture you are comfortable with. That's marriage, it's kids, it's work, it's exercise. Find the torture you're comfortable with and you'll do well. You've mastered that, you've mastered life.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

What can't be cured must be endured.

I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

What can't be helped must be endured.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

What can't be changed must be endured.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

I'm just more comfortable in my own skin now.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

I'm still far away from the person I want to be, but whoever this is for now, she's all right.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.