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Such extremity of suffering cannot be measured: madness or death may give relief.

There is no doubt that a blizzard has a bewildering and numbing effect upon the brain of any one exposed to it.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life

Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.

The task now was to secure the safety of the party, and to that I must bend my energies and mental power and apply every bit of knowledge that experience of the Antarctic had given me.

The task was likely to be long and strenuous, and an ordered mind and a clear programme were essential if we were to come through without loss of life.

The student’s goal is Poise! Poise is Power.

Keenly conscious of the social confusion all about us and the hard economic struggle, we at times believed that the very struggle itself might become a source of strength.

Misfortunes press hardest on those who are unacquainted with them: the yoke feels heavy to the tender neck.

Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver we shall become.

Do not confound yourself by considering the whole of life, and by dwelling upon the multitude and greatness of the pains and troubles to which you may probably be exposed.

Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.

Supposing, then, each separate misfortune to occasion a separate additional grief, the whole would be too great to be supportable.

Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

I grew tired and did more harm than good; so, if I met with a difficult point, for example, in algebra, instead of poring over it till I was bewildered, I left it, took my work or some amusing book, and resumed it when my mind was fresh.

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, SMILE! This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

much of grief is blunted and relaxed when the body is permeated by calm, like the sea in fine weather

the body is weighed down by the burden of what presses on it, but the soul often adds to the real load a burden of its own

Courage, combined with energy and perseverance, will overcome difficulties apparently insurmountable.

If thou bear it unwillingly, thou makest a burden for thyself and greatly increaseth thy load, and yet thou must bear it.

This it must be; and there is no means of escaping from tribulation and sorrow, except to bear them patiently.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.