Quotes by Authors - Page 216

Never complain about your troubles they are responsible for more than half of your income.
Robert R. Updegraff
Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
Thomas W. Higginson
Were there none who were discontented with what they have the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale
There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.
Willa Cather
We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope not of despair.
C.V. Wedgwood
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.
Margaret Anderson
Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen
And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.
E. Annie Proulx
Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real even though our feet bleed on its stones.
Mary Parker Follett
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
William J. H. Boetcker
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
Patti Smith
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust
Suffering has always been with us does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
Etty Hillesum
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word "travel" is derived from "travail " denoting the pains of childbirth.
Jessica Mitford
Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.
Edgar Allan Poe
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
Alexandra David-Neel
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened vision cleared ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Pietro Aretino
Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Tennessee Williams
Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.
Jessamyn West
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recovering the blessing of health.
Jane Austen
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Maureen Duffy
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Edwin H. Chapin
Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life we owe to it pity we owe to it courage we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole France
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.
Anonymous
There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.
Carol Pearson
I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows with a harp and sword in my hands.
Zora Neale Hurston
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Anonymous
The world is a wheel always turning philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low and those who've been low go up higher."
Anzia Yezierska
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
Whitney Griswold
When things come to the worse they generally mend.
Susanna Moodie
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
Grenville Kleiser
Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
M. Scott Peck
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
Louis L'Amour
Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle.
Louis L'Amour
They sicken of calm who know the storm.
Dorothy Parker
Difficulties opposition criticism - these things are meant to be overcome and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
John Neal
If you do things well do them better. Be daring be first be different be just.
Anita Roddick
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.
Molly Haskell
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
William A. Ward
Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."
Mark Twain
Treasure the memories of past misfortunes they constitute our bank of fortitude.
Eric Hoffer
Some minds seem almost to create themselves springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
Anonymous
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B.C. Forbes
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.
Beah Richards
I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee Williams
Fire tries gold misfortune men.
Anonymous
When the world has once begun to use us ill it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.
Jonathan Swift
Prosperity tries the fortunate adversity the great.
Pliny the Younger
They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.
Edward Noyes Westcott
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
Anonymous
I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.
Damon Runyon