Ted Haggard (1956) American minister
[Haggard, Ted, Letters from Home, Regal Books, March 2003, p. 18, ISBN 0830730583]
"Lean on Me", on Still Bill (1972) Live performance (1972) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6HeeuvTWo · Rock & Roll Hall of Fame performance (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YapAxPfRyI
Ted Haggard (1956) American minister
[Haggard, Ted, Letters from Home, Regal Books, March 2003, p. 18, ISBN 0830730583]
“You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it’s all we got.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Born of the Night
Elena Ceaușescu (1916–1989) Romanian politician
Statements at trial http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Transcript_of_the_closed_trial_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Ceau%C5%9Fescu (25 December 1989)
“If we only have love
We can reach those in pain
We can heal all our wounds
We can use our own names.”
Rod McKuen (1933–2015) American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer
Translations and adaptations, If We Only Have Love (1968)
“Once in our lives we have all to choose. More or less we have all felt once the same emotions.”
James Anthony Froude book The Nemesis of Faith
Confessions Of A Sceptic
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: Once in our lives we have all to choose. More or less we have all felt once the same emotions. We have not always been what the professions make of us. Nature made us men, and she surrenders not her children without a struggle. I will go back to my story now with but this one word, that it is these sons of genius, and the fate they meet with, which is to me the one sole evidence that there is more in "this huge state" than what is seen, and that in very truth the soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic Will, which rules and moulds this universe.
For what are they? Say not, say not, it is but a choice which they have made; and an immortality of glory in heaven shall reward them for what they have sacrificed on earth. It may be so; but they do not ask for it. They are what they are from the Divine power which is in them, and you would never hear their complainings if the grave was the gate of annihilation.
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Lulu Wang (1983) Asian-American filmmaker
As quoted in "The Farewell writer-director Lulu Wang on the joys of laughing at human nature" in The Verge (17 July 2019) https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/20696611/the-farewell-writer-director-lulu-wang-interview-awkwafina
Elizabeth Chase Allen (1832–1911) American author, journalist, poet
Endurance, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).