If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
There's always something good to come out of disappointment: Comfort.
Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
The way we approached Meru, and the way we approach a lot of these mountains, is with humility. A sense of, 'Is it going to give us passage?' Your mental attitude can affect the outcome.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.