Living in Carmine Superiore these last few years, I have learned many things. How to light a fire, how to pluck a chicken, how to walk quietly in the woods, how to save a life, how to find my place in the family I made. Most particularly, I have learned patience.
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
Powerless to vex your mind... Yes.
Brava.
ReplyDeleteI still have a long way to go then when it comes to patience!
ReplyDeleteYou never said truer words!!
ReplyDeleteHow could Leonardo be so wrong? One should stoke one's inner fires and rage!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful place Italy is though to learn the art of patience, I was never so patient when I lived in the UK.
ReplyDeleteVery true. I learned long ago to possess great patience.
ReplyDeleteIlse: Yes, there's the rage option, but after a number of years patience is the only way to go...
ReplyDeleteAnd Richard Rybolt wrote - "There will be a time when loud-mouthed bullies seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails."
ReplyDeleteCiao Vanessa: LOL. Too right.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe. "Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense"
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