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“Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of hardship comes a greater capacity to accept difficulties without losing our sense of inner calm. Of course, I do not advocate seeking out hardship as a way of life, but merely wish to suggest that, if you relate to it constructively, it can bring greater inner strength and fortitude.”

Ifs Way Courses Wish Accepting Greater Exercise Losing Capacity Difficulty Stronger Calm Seeking Relate Daily Life Inner Strength Hardship Fortitude Robust Forbearance Daily Experience

Author:Dalai Lama

“A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches.”

People Knows May Different Lasts Moving Courses House Wish Levels Rooms Environment Greater Doors Comfort Ambition Riches Enormous Settling Gentleman Surround Different Levels

Author:Chris Murray

“There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.”

“If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.”

Ifs Men Trying Lying Names Wish Greater Honest Honor Innocent Being Honest Deceiving Deities Stop Trying Swearing Dealings

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe. The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never have wished for war.”

People Ifs Made War States Facts Would Be Wanted Wish Simple Leader Greater Europe Germany Rulers Socialist Distress Recognise No War

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.”

“Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.”

Source: Freud's Vienna and Other Essays

“You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.”

Thinking Firsts May Doe Wish Greater Design Humility Building Mass Foundation Deeper Height Fabric Constructs

Author:Saint Augustine

“Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.”

Wish Greater Praying Intimate Preacher Acquaintance Revival Intercession Moody Revival Prayer Revival In America

Author:R. A. Torrey

“If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.”

Ifs Men Country Dies Wish Loss Greater Share Praying Mark Gods Will Our Country Thee One Man Honour Fewer I Pray

Book:Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes

Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes

“I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.”

Giving States Political Wish Greater Authority Highest Police Instruments Criminals Officials Discretion Non Political

Book:Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

Source: Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

“The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.”

Spirit Wish Walks Greater Danger Capitalism Convinced Bribe Walks Of Life Militarism

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“There's a lot of fear connected with the inner journey because it penetrates our illusions. Taking the inner journey will lead you into some very shadowy places. You're going to learn things about yourself that you'll wish you didn't know. There are monsters in there-monsters you can't control-but trying to keep them hidden will only give them greater power.”

Knows Giving Trying Wish Greater Journey Illusion Connected Monsters About Yourself Penetrate Wish You Greater Power Inner Journey

Author:Parker J. Palmer

“A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.”

Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers