I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught all the world would be wise since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning understanding patience love openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing patience and wisdom.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean there's a certain patience a certain discipline I think that religion helps you achieve.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing dismay thee, All thing pass, God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Endurance is the crowning quality And patience all the passion of great hearts.

No I will be the pattern of all patience, I will say nothing.

One can imbibe those lessons only to the extent of one's patience and intelligent skill.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Study the lives of our great women who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.