Seneca the Younger Quotes

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

What can't be helped must be endured.

You have to endure what you can't change.

Bear calamities with meekness.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

What can't be changed must be endured.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

What can't be cured must be endured.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.