Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself?
So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.
I'm currently facing some adversity in the form of physical disability and trying to look it at it this way. I won't say it's easy but the alternative is what: to be upset, to lament, or be depressed? What sense would that make to choose to feel that way?
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