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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Evil Laugh Speak True Yourself
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Confidence Help Inspirational One Liner Place Yourself
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Acceptance Demand Expectation Happen Peace Possible
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Greedy Happiness Human Nature Life
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Deep Expectation People Reality Yourself

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

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