Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true. – Mr. Spock, Star Trek

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. – Aesop

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. – Henry Ward Beecher