You should never feel that it is only up to others to practice patience and avoid friction. Patience and avoidance of strife are the social duties of everyone without exception. It should never be forgotten that while patience makes its possible to continue with life’s journey, impatience would ultimately prevent you from reaching your chosen destination.
When one is silent, one’s focus becomes oneself rather than extraneous matters. One eschews superficiality and engages with deeper realities.
A purposeful man always looks ahead to the future—straightforward and not towards right or left. He always thinks of long-lasting consequences rather than momentary considerations. He looks at things not from the point of view of personal desires and whims, but from the point of view of reality.
A noted western writer once, after studying the lives of great men, pinpointed the special qualities that were common to all of them. He concluded that all of them had been filled with curiosity and discontent. Curiosity had kept them in hot pursuit of things, ideas and ideals which had at first eluded them, and discontent had never allowed them to indulge in the thought that they had reached the final peak of
achievement.
