Excellence is optimistic. It’s believing that something can be done, that it’s worth fighting for, worth trusting others to play a part. And there is a benefit.—Optimism is good for your overall physical, emotional and physiological wellbeing.
The Perseverance Path
God is teaching you by His great picture book of nature to wait, to sow your seed, and wait for the slow ripening of the harvest under the patient heavens. He does not give you perfect and full-formed things at once. He sows the seeds of things that will gradually grow and ripen and bear fruit. He gives buds first, and then full unfolded blossoms, and then perfect fruit. —Hugh Macmillan (c.1850), adapted
