Claire Weekes - If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let th

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

- Claire Weekes

source: "Hope and Help for Your Nerves".

topic: Education, Wall, Thinking, Brick Wall, Avoided