The uses of adversity

Artist: Carel P. Brest van Kempen

Image from Wikimedia Commons

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venemous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt in public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
I would not change it.

-- William Shakespeare

This is very wise advice because, I think, most of us would wish to change it. It takes both courage and a certain trust not to.