Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Oh, what a misfortune is mine, cried Bradley, breaking off to wipe the starting perspiration from his face as he shook from head to foot, "that I cannot so control myself as to appear a stronger creature than this, when a man who has not felt in all his life what I have felt in a day can so command himself!" He said it in a very agony, and even followed it with an errant motion of his hands as if he could have torn himself.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.