Quotes about Resilience In Suffering
I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
- Alice Hoffman
As for me, sleep was a country I no longer visited, despite my incantation. When I did, I wished for my waking life, the hours when I didn't see the nightmare images of all that had happened and all I had become.
- Alice Hoffman
Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.
- Annette Funicello
Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
- Mother Teresa
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
- George Eliot
However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
- Teresa of Avila
You've had more than your share of heartache, honey, but sometimes what looks like a gift is a gift.
- Francine Rivers
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
- William Wordsworth
This iron world (the same he weeping says)Brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state:For misery doth bravest minds abate.Spens.Hubberd's Tale.
- Samuel Johnson
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
- John Donne
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca