We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.