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• We don't want to give the controls to someone else; we want those reins ourselves. We want to get our way. And we get upset when things don't work out. . . . When we try to control someone else or events beyond the scope of our power, we lose. When we learn to discern the difference between what we can change and what we can't, we usually have an easier time expressing our power in our lives. Because we're not wasting all our energy using our power to change things we can't, we have a lot of energy left over to live our lives.

  Melody Beattie

  Control Someone, Differences, Giving

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• There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.

  Howard Thurman

  Courage, Spring, Rivers

  Howard Thurman (2014). “Meditations of the Heart”, p.52, Beacon Press

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• Here is good news to those to whom enthusiasm does not come naturally: It can be cultivated. At first, you must consciously put your eyes, your voice, your spirit-in a word, yourself-into your appreciation of people and events and things. Do this around your home, at your work, and in your social contacts, and you will be surprised at how quickly it will become second nature. You will find yourself living in a more gracious and enthusiastic world, for your enthusiasm will be reflected back to you from the people to whom you give it.

  David Dunn

  Appreciation, Home, Eye

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• Life is full of painful events, and people who have lost their way and hurt others. Our pain is not lessened when we respond with hatred. In fact, the opposite occurs: When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hurt, Powerful, Pain

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• All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Political, Presidential

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• Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

  George Gissing

  Way, Calamity, Persistent

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.90, The Floating Press

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• When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Feet, Shoes

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• I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.

  Zhuangzi

  Death, Grief, Air

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• In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Passion, Fate, Conviction

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• The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ties, Secret, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Penguin

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• The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Praying, Granted

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.325

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• All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Power, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

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• Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

  Honore de Balzac

  Outcomes, Individual, Absolutes

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• The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Truth, Law

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Fate, Waiting, Chance

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the best thing we can do to honour him,” says World Champ Casey Stoner. We know we all play a risky game and, even if compared to the past the safety of our sport is much better, unfortunately these kind of events still occur. We will go out there this weekend and try to put on a good show for all the fans and especially in memory of Marco.

  Casey Stoner

  Sports, Memories, Thinking

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• Revolution is not an event! It's a process

  Professor Griff

  Revolution, Process

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• The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Real, Purpose, World

  Speech at the Mormon Tabernacle, delivered 26 September 1963, Salt Lake City, Utah

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• I started taking my fiance, Justin, to some red carpet events I would go to, and a bowtie is often something that was required. We came across a lot of stylish bowties. We liked playing dress up for these events and we thought it would be fun to start a line, but it was never a reality until recently.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Fun, Reality, Playing Dress Up

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson: The Bemused Exasperation Expert". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2012.

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• The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Character, Parent

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.618, Open Road Media

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• First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hate, Believe, Useless

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Gone, World, Eternity

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• The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.

  Saul Bellow

  Two, Special, Firsts

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• Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dark, Riding, Half

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.171, Library of America

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• I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Real, Mean

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