We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“She gave it a shot' was how she planned to euphemize the five-year detour: to her therapist, to curious friends, to herself.… — Glenn Diaz Copy Share Image
Maybe it was because my resignation letter was well written, and this attracted the attention of the factory supervisor. They kept me… — Zhou Qunfei Copy Share Image
It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary,… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic… — William James Copy Share Image
Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Catherine Marshall writes, “Resignation is barren of faith in the love of God…. Resignation lies down quietly in the dust of a… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to… — Gerard Majella Copy Share Image
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I've known Al Franken for over 20 years. He is my friend. He was on the floor of the Senate announcing his… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“I could almost see the resignation on the old man’s face. I knew he would draw a breath and sigh that I… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent… — William James Copy Share Image
It’s seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days…” he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In the Army, I grew up with this view that you're asked to do anything that is illegal or immoral or unethical,… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
Put a good bunch of grapes under the winepress, and a delicious juice will come out. Under the winepress of the cross,… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“It was one of the moments you stay in, to hell with all the troubles of before and after. The sky is… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise,… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“If {Death} comes for you?” he said. “Would you be so sanguine then?” She laughed and the pensiveness was gone. “No indeed.… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
History has shown us that all the great advances have taken place in Spain when we have evolved and adapted to the… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
If I have not decided to step down, it does not mean that I do not want to step down but because… — Suharto Copy Share Image
“I never got to see a proper striptease. Not anything even remotely close. I was stupid and went to literary cafés and… — Tor Ulven Copy Share Image
