Everything is so much more bearable with you around, Ava.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead

If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and…

— Beth Moore

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

— Marcus Aurelius

Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

— Jodi Picoult

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

— Margaret Mead

You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved…

— Gail Caldwell

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

— Erica Jong

For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a…

— Andrew Sullivan

“shared pain is more bearable.”

— Isabel Allende

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away…

— Paulo Coelho

How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?” His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. “You’ll see her again. She’s with Nyx now. She’ll…

— Anonymous

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut