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• The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

  Rene Descartes

  Anger, Passion, Self

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• Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

  N. Scott Momaday

  History, Stories, Ifs

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• Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Pain, Struggle, Hero

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• Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

  James Rachels

  True Friend, Real, Understanding

  James Rachels (1999). “The Elements of Moral Philosophy”

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• Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, Littles, Way

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• Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Friendship, Needs

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• The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

  Robyn Davidson

  Life, Wisdom, Hope

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• Nous sommes tous oblige  s, pour rendre la re  alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Indulge In, Folly

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• I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

  Isak Dinesen

  Suffering, Stories, Ifs

  Interview with Bent Mohn in The New York Times Book Review, November 3, 1957.

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• In any trial, in any bitter situation, you are not alone, you are not helpless, you are not a victim. You have a tree, a cross, shown to you by the Sovereign God of Calvary. Whatever the trial or temptation, it is not more than you can bear. It is bearable. It can be handled. You can know as Joseph knew, "You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive" (Genesis 50:20).

  Kay Arthur

  Order, People, Evil

  Kay Arthur (1994). “Beloved: From God's Heart to Yours”, Harvest House Pub

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• I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.

  Agnes de Mille

  Fear, Sleep, Night

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• Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, Stupidity, Assuming

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  it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

  Rose Kennedy

  Determination, Pain, Tears

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

  Gloria Steinem

  Imagination, Television, Tvs

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.132, Open Road Media

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• friendship is love made bearable.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Friendship, Made

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.471, Bantam

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• Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

  Erica Jong

  Divorce, Age, Generations

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.165, Penguin

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• Loving him didn't fix anything. Loving him didn't change anything. Loving him simply made everything else bearable.

  P. C. Cast

  Loving Him, Made

  P.C. Cast (2017). “Divine By Blood”, p.225, Harlequin

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• terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Mind, Creeps

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• There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Believe, Loss

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• If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Hurt, Writing

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• Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspired, Persons, Known

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• How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?” His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. “You’ll see her again. She’s with Nyx now. She’ll either wait for you in the Goddess’s meadow, or she’ll be reborn and her soul will find you again during this lifetime. You can bear it because you know that spirit never really ends-we never really end.

  P. C. Cast

  Voice, Broken, Waiting

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• Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable

  Tarryn Fisher

  Weight, Littles, Lifting

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• There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.

  George Eliot

  Work, Men, Squares

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.60

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• I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Together, Unbreakable Bonds, Way

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.592, Atlantic Monthly Press

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