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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.

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.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.