Days Quotes

The only menace is inertia.

~ Saint John Perse

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

~ Hugh Prather

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word guts-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointments you have guts in the soldiering sense.

~ Colonel John S. Roosman

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

~ William Shakespeare

An enthusiast may bore others but he has never a dull moment himself.

~ John Kieran

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

~ Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall Some days must be dark and dreary.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.

~ Tug Mcgraw

Some days the dragon wins.

~ Anonymous

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

Experience cold or heat pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.

~ Sri Krishna

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

Let nothing disturb thee Let nothing affright thee All things are passing God changeth never.

~ Teresa Of Ávila

This too shall pass.

~ William Shakespeare

The present will not long endure.

~ Pindar

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

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

~ Jacqueline Briskin

Sadness and gladness succeed each other.

~ Anonymous

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

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

Life comes in clusters clusters of solitude then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.

~ May Sarton

If winter comes can spring be far behind?

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.

~ Euripides

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn.

~ Hal Borland

There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.

~ Gilbert Maxwell

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.

~ Martin Luther

For lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth.

~ Bible

If matters go badly now they will not always be so.

~ Horace

Pain is never permanent.

~ Teresa Of Ávila

You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace.

~ Alison Cheek

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

Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience day by day Even this shall pass away.

~ Theodore Tilton

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.

~ Katherine Mansfield

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

I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

~ Mike Todd

In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.

~ Heart Warrior Chosa

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

~ Yiddish Proverb

Our toil is sweet with thankfulness Our burden is our boon The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

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