emotional tolerance Quotes

People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending.

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.

I find my own pain and others' difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they'll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it's a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.

Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

What I think is key is everybody has to approach a relationship from a realistic standpoint. Everybody has stuff in the back of a trunk. The key is what kind of stuff can you deal with. There are some women who can deal with a relationship that I can't.

Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.

And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.

We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.

A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.

At the core of all human behavior, the good feelings we all want are more or less the same. Therefore, what we get out of life is not determined by the good feelings we desire but by what bad feelings we're willing to sustain.

'The ruckus' is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.

How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery?

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.

You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."

I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.