Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A dream is mandatory for those who follow it and optional for those who ignore it. — John Elwin Copy Share Image
“Bearing one another’s burdens is not easy, but it is also not optional.” — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional. — Sean Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Reading this chapter is optional but as you’ve read it you’ve read it.” — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can… — Elton John Copy Share Image
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked … fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry… — Andrew Skurka Copy Share Image
All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage… — T.I Copy Share Image
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an… — John Vockler Copy Share Image
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an 'extra' that a person might grow into after he… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Our father presents an optional set of rhythms and responses for us to connect to. As a second home base, he makes… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
I gave a talk on gender stuff at Facebook one morning and a man didn't come. It was optional; he didn't have… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional.… — Barbara Copy Share Image
I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There needs to be a public dawning - and it is beginning to dawn on some members of the public - that… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can… — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Complying with requests from Congress is not optional. It is mandatory. — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
![“The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about” quote by N. T. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/441/n-t-wright-2-2245_christian_the-rule-of-love-i-say-again-is-not-an-o_1887860.jpg)
![“[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself” quote by Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d84/pope-benedict-xvi-414_christ_evangelization-is-not-something-optional_1696417.jpg)
![“Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity…” quote by Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/faa/gautama-buddha-163_be-grateful_pain-in-life-is-inevitable-but-suffering_611620.jpg)
