“One who cannot tolerate small ills will never accomplish great things”
-Chinese Proverb
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1 comment:
Basically, you need to be able to withstand small failures or upsets or you cannot accomplish big things. That makes perfect sense! (Once I analyzed and carefully translated and restated it...)
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