A Quote by Mary Mapes Dodge

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

Mary Mapes Dodge

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Before Easily Endured Hardships Luxuries Returning Unfit Us

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Mary Mapes Dodge
American - Writer
January 26, 1831 - August 21, 1905

Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of eternal growth in ATTITUDE and DESIRE. If endured with the right attitude and accompanied by righteous desires, suffering and deprivation can be the agency of great growth in our spirits.

Dallin H. Oaks

Personally, I was oblivious to any financial hardships that my parents endured.

Sven-Goran Eriksson

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

Tahir Shah

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.

Corrie Ten Boom

I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured my hardships because I was merely living my convictions.

Samir Geagea

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Junius

The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to the mass production of uneducated gradtuates - people literaly unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call "life".

Thomas Merton

One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am more recognized.

Dries van Noten

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

Henri Rousseau

Penance is the willingness to undergo hardships for the achievement of a good purpose. I was willing. But when hardships came I found myself lifted above them. Instead of hardship, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy and conviction that I was following God's will. Blessings instead of hardships are showered upon me.

Peace Pilgrim

Everybody goes through hardships but hardships make you the person you are, and I feel that is important.

Angad Bedi

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.