“Endurance comes only from enduring” - Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet, from “A Magic Mountain”
“I have never met a man who as given me as much trouble as myself” - D.L. Moody
“O would some Power the good Lord give us To see ourselves as others see us!” - Robert Burns, poet - “To a Louse”
“It was an obstacle illusion!” - unnamed friend. Actually, I’m not sure if he said obstacle or optical, but it sure sounded like obstacle and that’s funnier
“One day you rode the trolley for the last time and didn’t know it” - I read this somewhere and it’s stuck with me, I’ve not been able to find the original author. There’s a last time we’ve done everything for the last time in our life.
“My favorite plans are cancelled plans” - unknown, but definitely an introvert