the greater school for life, A Human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 253

253
Which is the greater school for life, to enjoy privileges or to suffer deprivation?  I do not know the answer, but I do know this at least, that I must learn from life as it presents itself.  And in what other way could I learn this than to grip whatever good or bad luck falls into my hand.  But in either pampering or adversity to complain — “Why precisely this?”  — is to drop the most valuable gem in life: our direct relationship with reality.  Real life begins only after we shout boldly and firmly, “Even this!”




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