Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety. After all, it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.
The wisdom here isn't merely that hardship has a silver lining—it's that anxiety itself becomes the real adversary, separate from the difficulty. Ali suggests something subtler: your troubles needn't multiply through worry. When a parent faces job loss, the financial problem is real enough without sleepless nights adding exhaustion and poor decision-making to the burden. The star metaphor works precisely because it doesn't promise the darkness will vanish, only that your capacity to perceive meaning sharpens when everything else falls away.
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Viktor Frankl“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Seneca