Lauren Oliver Quotes

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

Possess your soul with patience.

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

Have patience, heart.

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

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

Strength comes from waiting.

Patience is moral elasticity.

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? 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.

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Grace under pressure.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.