The Stone Carver's Persistence

Many feel lost when success remains out of sight. Like a seed deep in the

earth, it grows in silence before the first sprout. Consider the stone

carver, striking his rock a hundred times without a single crack.

His hands grow weary, his spirit tests his resolve, yet he refuses

to lay down his tool. Day after day, the sun rises and sets,

and the stone remains unchanged. But at the hundred and first blow,

the rock splits wide open. It was not that last strike alone that did

it. But all the effort that came before it, hidden from the