Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Themes
Adversity
Fortune, injury, and the use of what cannot be chosen.
Choose not to be harmed — and you haven't been.
This accident is not a misfortune, but bearing it well turns it to an advantage.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
This accident is not a misfortune, but bearing it well turns it to an advantage.
No rose without a thorn. But many a thorn without a rose.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
The axe forgets; the tree remembers.