Quote by Alexander McLeod

“I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.”

— Chris Crutcher

“All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.”

— George Santayana

“we could survive the worst, doesn’t it stand to reason we should be able to bear the best?”

— V.C. Andrews

“The way this life is designed; the only things you need are the very things that can never been taken from you.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“We want to possess what they’re not making any more, what not many others can get and what will distinguish us from others.”

— Gina Barreca

“We are, by our very human nature, limited in what we can know or do or control or change.”

— Marya Hornbacher

“Most things in life are only as difficult as you allow them to be.”

— Gemma Burgess

“The thing we want the most is always the thing we cannot have.”

— Dean Koontz

“We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.”

— Immanuel Kant

“human material existence is limited by ideas, not by stuff.”

— Steven Pinker

“The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them.”

— Nathan Hill

“We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time.”

— William McKinley