If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly many an unbearable situation would become manageable and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly many an unbearable situation would become manageable and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

– Claire Weeks –

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