VICTORY (author unknown)
When you are content with any food, any raiment, any climate, any solitude, any interruption - that is VICTORY
When you can bear with any discord, any annoyance, any irregularity, any unpunctuality (of which you are not the cause) - that is VICTORY
When you are forgotten or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you smile inwardly and glory in the insult, or the oversight - that is VICTORY
When you can stand face to face with folly, extravagance, spiritual insensiblity, persecution, and endure it all - that is VICTORY
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, when you can truly "love the unknown" - that is VICTORY
When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your tastes offended, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you take it in patient and loving silence - that is VICTORY