Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Hardship does not sort people into large and small, but it does present everyone with the same fork. One road is to let the misfortune define what is now possible, and the other is to treat it as a fact to be worked around. Which one you take on a given day depends on how much is left in you, not on what kind of person you are.

If something has knocked you down, the useful question is not whether you are strong but what one thing is still within reach today. Do that one thing. The rising happens in ordinary increments and rarely feels heroic at the time.