Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Perseverance


Patience is drawing on underlying forces; it is powerfully positive,
though to a natural view it looks like just sitting it out.
How would I persist against positive eroding forces
if I were not drawing on invisible forces?
And patience has a positive tonic effect on others;
because of the presence of the patient person,
they revive and go on, as if he were the gyroscope of the ship providing a stable ground.
But the patient person himself does not enjoy it.

PAUL GOODMAN

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