We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. Marcus Aurelius
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. Charles Dickens
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. Meister Eckhart
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it. Sophocles
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. Ovid
