~ Difficult Days Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]And he shall reign a goodly king And sway his hand o'er every clime With peace writ on his signet ring Who bides his time.

James Whitcomb Riley

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again; it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death.

Isak Dinesen

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We do not live an equal life but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy then a sorrow now a sin then a generous or brave action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.

James Whitcomb Riley

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To everything there is a season A time for every purpose under heaven.... A time to weep and a time to laugh A time to mourn and a time to dance.

Bible

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Pain is part of being alive and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever nor is it necessarily unbearable and we need to be taught that.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.

Francis Ford Coppola

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.

Epictetus

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Have patience with all things but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us something unknown.

Rainer Maria Rilke

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The one law that does not change is that everything changes and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

Louis L'Amour

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly many an unbearable situation would become manageable and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

Claire Weeks