Echoes

We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

There is no man in the world free from trouble or anguish, though he were King or Pope.

One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

We have surmounted all the perils and endured all the agonies of the past. We shall provide against and thus prevail over the dangers and problems of the future, withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well. We have, I believe, within us the life-strength and guiding light by which the tormented world around us may find the harbour of safety, after a storm-beaten voyage.

Things are not so painful and difficult of themselves, but our weakness or cowardice makes them so.

Every man carries the entire form of the human condition within him.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows. It doesn't matter. And some people recover and others don't. There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well — an opportunity to learn something.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all Diseases and Miseries.

The strength of the wolf is the pack, and the strength of the pack is the wolf.

All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.

We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them,—thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.

I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.

Grace under pressure.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it's unendurable . . . then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well.