When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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