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When fate hands you a lemon make lemonade.

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not...

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Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the f...

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Never despair but if you do work on in despair.

Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they fi...

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Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage and ...

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To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Events are not a matter of chance.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

We must never despair our situation has been compromising before and it has changed for the better...

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All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good ba...

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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at a...

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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an '...

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Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can ded...

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Noble souls through dust and heat rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the roa...

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say ...

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In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind confident of g...

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Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination the way you play ...

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All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can ma...

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Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to ri...

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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.

Tears mess up your makeup.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Concern should drive us into action not into a depression.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i...

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Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we ta...

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Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.

Any man can shoot a gun and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately but that makes no ...

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If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for wh...

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She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to len...

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which ...

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What the caterpillar calls a tragedy the Master calls a butterfly.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life o...

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. . . for meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate ...

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Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem a way of standing...

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Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen ...

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The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitr...

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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardon...

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failur...

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrumen...

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William Kingdon CliffordLectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones and I've had a lot of those. I've been ...

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When all that hate energy was focused on me it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supp...

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Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.

No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.

Little things affect little minds.

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nucle...

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Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.

Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.