Days Quotes - Page 2

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly many an unbearable situation would become manageable and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.

Pindar

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run the truth that finally overtakes you.

Katherine Anne Porter

This too shall pass.

William Shakespeare

The present will not long endure.

Pindar

We do not live an equal life but one of contrasts and patchwork now a little joy then a sorrow now a sin then a generous or brave action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Jacqueline Briskin

I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death....

Life comes in clusters clusters of solitude then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Euripides

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn.

There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.

Gilbert Maxwell

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.

For lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth.

Bible

If matters go badly now they will not always be so.

Horace

Pain is never permanent.

Teresa of Avila.

You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace.

Pain is part of being alive and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever nor is it necessarily unbearable and we need to be taught that.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience day by day Even this shall pass away.

Theodore Tilton

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.

Katherine Mansfield

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

Rodney Dangerfield

Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall Some days must be dark and dreary.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.

Some days the dragon wins.

Anonymous

The one law that does not change is that everything changes and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

Experience cold or heat pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.

To everything there is a season A time for every purpose under heaven.... A time to weep and a time to laugh A time to mourn and a time to dance.

Bible

Let nothing disturb thee Let nothing affright thee All things are passing God changeth never.

Teresa of Avila.

Dullness is a misdemeanor.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

Passions are less mischievous than boredom for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

Boredom like necessity is very often the mother of invention.

Anonymous

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

An enthusiast may bore others but he has never a dull moment himself.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy

When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Helen Maclnness

Boredom is a sickness of the soul.

Anonymous

Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

In the ancient recipe the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep drink and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up from drink you become sober and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner the whole world opens up to you.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

John Jay Chapman

If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try it for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

William Ralph Inge

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else to do something kind and good.

Theodore Haecker

Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

Stendhal

Getting bored is not allowed.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

Logan Pearsall Smith

We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Charles Caleb Colton

Boredom is rage spread thin.

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