What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
Have consideration for wounded feelings.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.