| Show those who can stand and wait quality often of greater value than ability to do things every important life story has two aspects says the famous dr harry emerson fosdick the things a m man an has energy elou enough h to do find and the things thin s a man lias has stability enough to stand that is of special interest to women is the comment of a celebrated woman writer for it is particularly true with women that much of what we are able to accomplish depends on how much we cin can stan stand the hardest battles are not always fought in the field of action indeed most of us have at some time said its so much easier when theres something you can do sometimes the most important doing consists of standing something that is hard to stand the energy to do is of course an important thin tiling in this rushing bustling competitive world we all have need of it hut but there are circumstances cum curn stances in life when that is uncalled for when it is useless when the problem at hand is one it cannot solve that is the time usually when it is not energy but stand ability that is needed to win through strength astren th yes but the strength of balance and stability the strength not to go out and do but to stand and take it to stand and withstand it if I 1 were faced with a choice of the two qualities I 1 should say that the person is better off particularly it if she is a woman who has her abundance in that steadiness and stability that can stand things lings ti than one who has instead merely a surplus F of energy F for or the former is the quality most needed in the exigencies of dally daily life needed most often and then most desperately tely and it is a quality that depends entirely upon itself that Is not fed by outside stimulus as energy and activity may be in a line of the poet milton there is thought on one kind of standing mhd things S they also serve who only stand and wait Q bell 1301 syndicate tau anu service |
