Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Quotes

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

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

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

There is no other course but the one we have chosen, except the course of humiliation and darkness, after which there will be no bright sign in the sky or brilliant light on earth? All this will make us more patient and steadfast, and better prepared for the battle which God blesses and which good men support. Then there will only be a glorious conclusion, where a brilliant sun will clear the dust of battle, and where the clouds of battles will be dispelled.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet I wish to say to my brethren and sisters that these things are the heritage of the Saints of God. … I have never read of the people of God in any dispensation passing through life, as the sectarian world would say, on flowery beds of ease, without opposition of any kind.

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.