If therefore thou use not on all sides the shield of patience, thou wilt not remain long unwounded.

Why doth a little thing spoken against thee make thee sad? If it had been more, thou still oughtest not to be moved. But now suffer it to go by; it is not the first, it is not new, and it will not be the last, if thou live long. Thou art brave enough, so long as no adversity meeteth thee. Thou givest good counsel also, and knowest how to strengthen others with thy words; but when tribulation suddenly knocketh at thine own door, thy counsel and strength fail.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

Laying a good foundation is important, but the fact remains that we don't live in the foundation; we live in the house built upon it. In that house where daily life is lived, things are not always as they should be.

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

As such, there is no one-size-fits-all approach that anyone can offer you. The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.

We all are vulnerable to the forces and decisions that have derailed too many.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There

We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles—whatever one may choose to call them—we know: the best of us did not return.

U]ntil his last breath no one can wrest from a man his freedom to take one or another attitude toward his destiny.

The destiny a person suffers therefore has a twofold meaning: to be shaped where possible, and to be endured where necessary.