Show those who can stand and wait quality often of greater value than ability to do things 4 every important life story has two aspects says the famous dr harry emerson fosdick the things a man has energy enough to do and the things a man has stability enough to stand that Is ot of special interest to t women Is the comment 0 of r a celebrated woman writer for it la Is particularly true with women that much of what we are able to accomplish depends on how low much we HO can stand stain the hardest battles tire arc not always fought in the field of act action on 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 ot of 11 standing something that Is hard to lo stand the energy to do h M of course tin nn important thing in this rushing bustling competitive world we till all have need of it hut but there are circumstances cum stances in ever life when alien that Is uncalled for when it Is useless when tits the problem at hand Is one it cannot solve that la Is the time usually when it la Is not energy but that Is needed to win through strength yes but the strength of balance and stability the strength not to go out and do but to stand and take it to stand nod and withstand if I 1 were faced with a choice of lie he two qualities I 1 should say that the person Is better of 0 particularly it site she Is n woman who has her abundance in that steadiness and stability that can stand things than one who has instead merely a surplus of 0 ener energy gy for the former Is the quality most needed in the exigencies of dally daily life needed most often and then most desperately and it Is a quality that depends entirely upon itself that is not fed by outside stimulus its 11 energy and activity may be in a line of the poet milton there la 14 thought on one kind ot of standing things they also serve who only stand and watt wait 0 C boll bell syndicate service |