"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Carl Jung said, "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."
The photographer for a magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fire. Smoke at the scene hampered him, so he asked his office to hire a plane. Arrangements were made, so he was asked to go to a nearby airport, where the plane would be waiting. When he arrived at the airport, a plane was warming up near the runway. He jumped in with his equipment and yelled, "Let's go! Let's go!" The pilot swung the plane into the wind and they soon were in the
