Patience is most bitter, yet most sweet the fruit it beareth.

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Ah! ye brothers of misfortune! be not ye with grief oppressed, Many are the secret mercies which with the All-bounteous rest. Sit not sad because that Time a fitful aspect weareth; Patience is most bitter, yet most sweet the fruit it beareth.

Source Gulistan, Chapter 1, §19 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Saadi, the Persian poet of the Gulistan (The Rose Garden), God, the All-bounteous, keeps hidden mercies in store, and patience, bitter at the moment, bears a very sweet fruit. Today, when facing a wait or a setback, breathe and tell yourself: “the fruit will come,” then offer a word of comfort to someone going through a hard time.

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