Temper

If it's not one thing--it's another.

That is about the best motto I can think of right now, but it is really almost always true.

Life is a set of challenges; all of them relative, all of them doable in some way.

It is just a matter of figuring out what to do.  The thing to remember is that they aren't all going to turn out the way I want.

When they turn out dead wrong, I need to learn how to cope.  That is doing too-- just from a different angle.

Sometimes coping is more important than success.  It is like tempering, or in other words, what doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

I think I don't want to be any stronger, but that's not true.