We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
When you are depressed, bear in mind the Lord's command to Peter to forgive a sinner seventy times seven (cf. Mt. 18:22).… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“It’s been what – eleven years?” he says, his voice quieter now. “Twelve.” I swallow. “Twelve. Christ, yeah, right.” He runs his… — Samantha Towle Copy Share Image
Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
If your life consistently bears no fruit, God will intervene to discipline you. If your life bears some fruit, God will intervene… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are sometimes told that we are not a biblical church. We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious… — Joan Blondell Copy Share Image
The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage. Then you can… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most… — Joseph Caryl Copy Share Image
Please don't take him away from this world. Please don't let him die here in my arms, not after everything we've been… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest… — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
If you see really bright lights, or hear really loud noises, go towards them, don't run away from anything. It's like giving… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Most of the time you should use reason, there is no doubt about that because gut often makes us susceptible to lots… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
YOUR HEART IS FULL of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly,… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The German people of today bear no guilt. Why are the German people not permitted the right to defend themselves? Why are… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who… — Peter York Copy Share Image
a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
