“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage; it can be delightful.”    George Bernard Shaw

I ran across this quote the other day and it resonated strongly with the way I view life. So, I wanted to share it, of course with a little embellishment of my own.

Courage

A common definition of courage is “Acting with strength in the face of pain or grief”.  In Barnard Shaw’s, view the delights that await as you wend your way through life make the percieved hardships manageble.

This makes a lot of sense to me.  As I have said in previous posts, put on a happy face and enjoy everything.  This is in yourhand, how you percieve things is completely within your control.  Really there are no good reasons not too.

Experiencing Delight

To really enjoy the delight that awaits us throughout our lives we must both believe it exists and be receptive to embracing it.  Shaw’s encoragement is not just a practicle suggestion of a way to deal with lifes trials (i.e. take courage) but it is also a motivating statement..

Foreshadowing the pleasures of the future can certainly be a helpful technique for handling the pains of the present.

My fair lady (the play the qoute is derived from) is a tale of rising above hardship and both giving and recieving the gift of “delight”   It is a fabulous story I highly recommend reading, watching the play or the movie if you have not done so already.