Una vida Holandesa en Mallorca

Yesterday I read a posted scrap on a messenger board (in Spanish) which stated Albert Einsteins thoughts on crisis. It impacted me as I have been thinking a lot about my personal crisis: my work, my failure to publish enough, to secure a position, the insecurity of my future, my being limited to this island, the feeling of being trapped. His thoughts are helping me to turn around a suffocating feeling of being in ´crisis´ into a positive feeling of challenge. Did not want to keep it from you since it certainly applies to todays financial crisis so, unusual for me, mostly occupied with trivialities, I post the quote here:

Let's not pretend that things will change if we keep doing the same things. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation. For all crises bring progress.
Creativity is born from anguish, just like the day is born form the dark night. It's in crisis that inventive is born, as well as discoveries, and big strategies. Who overcomes crisis, overcomes himself, without getting overcome. Who blames his failure to a crisis neglects his own talent, and is more respectful to problems than to solutions. Incompetence is the true crisis.
The greatest inconvenience of people and nations is the laziness with which they attempt to find the solutions to their problems. There's no challenge without a crisis. Without challenges, life becomes a routine, a slow agony. There’s no merit without crisis. It's in the crisis where we can show the very best in us. Without a crisis, any wind becomes a tender touch. To speak about a crisis is to promote it. Not to speak about it is to exalt conformism. Let us work hard instead.
Let us stop, once and for all, the menacing crisis that represents the tragedy of not being willing to overcome it.