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Events QuotesFamous Events quotes by popular authors such as Epictetus, John Cage, Marcus Aurelius, Abraham Lincoln, Francois de La Rochefoucauld and others.
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[highlight-text]Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]Humor is an antidote to isolation.
Elizabeth Janeway
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[highlight-text]Always take an emergency leisurely.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Humor brings insight and tolerance.
Agnes Repplier
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[highlight-text]Whenever you fall pick something up.
Oswald Avery
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[highlight-text]When things go wrong don't go with them.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Coming events cast their shadows before.
Thomas Campbell
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[highlight-text]Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]When fate hands you a lemon make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie
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[highlight-text]In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace
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[highlight-text]Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
Boethius
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[highlight-text]When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Frank Leahy
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[highlight-text]Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]Keep strong if possible; in any case keep cool.
Sir Basil Liddell Hart
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[highlight-text]Never despair but if you do work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette
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[highlight-text]We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
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[highlight-text]Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman
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[highlight-text]What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.
Mignon McLaughlin
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[highlight-text]Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
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[highlight-text]Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
Evelyn Underhill
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[highlight-text]To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Francoise Sagan
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[highlight-text]All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
James A. Michener
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[highlight-text]Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
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[highlight-text]Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.
Ethel Barrymore
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[highlight-text]Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.
John Telgen
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[highlight-text]Concern should drive us into action not into a depression.
Karen Horney
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[highlight-text]We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Alexander Hamilton
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[highlight-text]There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
Plautus
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[highlight-text]Find the grain of truth in criticism - chew it and swallow it.
Don Sutton
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[highlight-text]The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
David Hume
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[highlight-text]If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Boy George
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[highlight-text]Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]What the caterpillar calls a tragedy the Master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
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[highlight-text]Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.
James E. Sweeney
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[highlight-text]The difficulties of life are intended to make us better not bitter.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Ralph W. Sockman
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[highlight-text]Men are not influenced by things but by their thoughts about things.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
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[highlight-text]No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.
Arnold Bennett
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[highlight-text]Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy
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[highlight-text]Never regret. If it's good it's wonderful. If it's bad it's experience.
Victoria Holt
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[highlight-text]We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid.
John Cage
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[highlight-text]A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine the Great
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[highlight-text]Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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[highlight-text]Noble souls through dust and heat rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
Lyn Karol
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[highlight-text]Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
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[highlight-text]To a brave man good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
Saint Catherine of Siena
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[highlight-text]To be happy drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time.'
Smiley Blanton
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[highlight-text]True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
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[highlight-text]The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.
John Milton
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[highlight-text]The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
H. T. Leslie
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[highlight-text]Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
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[highlight-text]The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand but you play it.
James Brady
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[highlight-text]If you are being run out of town get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.
Sally Stanford
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[highlight-text]Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever even if your whole world seems upset.
Saint Francis de Sales
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[highlight-text]Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Harry S. Truman
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[highlight-text]Courage in the final analysis is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
Dr. Kurt Goldstein
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[highlight-text]Laughter is ever young whereas tragedy except the very highest of all quickly becomes haggard.
Margaret Sackville
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[highlight-text]Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary
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[highlight-text]There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson
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[highlight-text]Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
Sigmund Freud
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[highlight-text]Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
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[highlight-text]When the rock is hard we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough we get tougher than the job.
George Cullum
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[highlight-text]A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.
Harriet Rochlin
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[highlight-text]All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris
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[highlight-text]Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.
Herbert Benson
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[highlight-text]Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
Stendhal
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[highlight-text]Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
Alberta Flanders
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[highlight-text]If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond
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[highlight-text]All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
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[highlight-text]Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.
Alan Simpson
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[highlight-text]What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
George Levinger
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[highlight-text]Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.
John Hay
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[highlight-text]Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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[highlight-text]Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.
Philip Butler
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[highlight-text]Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.
Dr. Ann Faraday
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[highlight-text]So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.
George Moore
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[highlight-text]I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.
J. Kenfield Morley
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[highlight-text]A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
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[highlight-text]Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.
Amy Alcott
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[highlight-text]Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive tolerate the unpleasant cope with the unexpected and smile through the unbearable.
Moshe Waldoks
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[highlight-text]The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.
William Bolitho
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[highlight-text]I'm not happy I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
Beverly Sills
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[highlight-text]Humor is the healthy way of feeling 'distance' between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.
Rollo May
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[highlight-text]What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
William Carlos Williams
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[highlight-text]Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.
Tom O'Connor
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[highlight-text]Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh Hunt
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[highlight-text]A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
Thornton Wilder
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[highlight-text]If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
Florynce Kennedy
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[highlight-text]I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Linda Ellerbee
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[highlight-text]When something bad happens to me I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.
Christie Brinkley
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[highlight-text]It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most and the true 'gift' in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
Cathy Lee Crosby
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[highlight-text]Any man can shoot a gun and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.
H. Bertram Lewis
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[highlight-text]There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
John Homer Miller
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[highlight-text]There are more serious problems in life than financial ones and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.
Willie Nelson
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[highlight-text]He who having lost one ideal refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.
Constance Naden
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[highlight-text]It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune.
Harvey Oxenhorn
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[highlight-text]The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always though in the midst of sorrows and possess all things though destitute of everything.
James Freeman Clarke
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[highlight-text]Boys this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand good or bad and don't whine and complain but play it out. If you're men enough to do that God will help you and you will come out well.
Ida Eisenhower
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[highlight-text]We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]When all that hate energy was focused on me it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supporting me. If you are centered and you can transform all this energy that comes in it will help you. If you believe it is going to kill you it will kill you.
Yoko Ono
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[highlight-text]I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.
Connie Mack
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[highlight-text]No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it - the meaning it has in his emotional economy; the way it affects his self-image.
Bonaro Overstreet