Resignation

(151 votes)   We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(141 votes)   I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(125 votes)   Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(117 votes)   Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(103 votes)   What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(97 votes)   Make sense who may. I switch off.

Samuel Beckett
1906-1989, Irish Dramatist, Novelist

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(97 votes)   We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, we'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, we'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.

Cecil Day Lewis

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