“Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.” GivingLightPainCausesDangerWeaknessOvercomingDifficultyBraveDevotionEnduranceFacultyWearinessEarnestnessOvercoming Pain Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.” ThinkingIdeasSoulPainSufferingTurnsPassionAwarenessCapacityRelationMy SoulNo IdeaMutualFacultySensationsMy ThoughtsMy PassionSensory Author:Nicolas Malebranche
“Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.” GivingBelieveDoePainSpiritAnimalFailingPleaseWeakFacultyVegetablesPerfumeBoastFragranceReviveOffendingGood HumorGaiety Author:Samuel Johnson
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.” MindPainAbilityFacultyName Of The Wind Author:Patrick Rothfuss