Quotes about Tribulations

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity.  We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

Soul enters life from below, through the cracks, finding an opening into life at points where smooth functioning breaks down.

Nothing can temper the warriors spirit as much as the challenge of dealing with with impossible people in positions of power.  Only under those conditions can warriors aquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable.

The only way to pass a test is to take the test

Do not grieve.  Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men.  Death will come, always out of season.  It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey.  What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for… Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives - they grow everywhere.  Big Elk - Omaha Chief