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  I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.

  Helen Keller

  Years, Soul, Feelings

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.142, NYU Press

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• The Olympics is my favourite sporting event. Although I have a problem with that silver medal. When you think about it, you win the gold - you feel good, you win the bronze - you think, 'Well at least I got something'. But when you win silver, it's like, 'Congratulations, you 'almost' won. Of all the losers, you came in first of that group. You're the number one 'loser.' No one lost ahead of you.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Congratulations, Winning, Thinking

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• At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Brother, First Love

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

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• All success in life, whether material or spiritual, starts with the thoughts that you put into your mind every second of every minute of every day. Your outer world reflects the state of your inner world. By controlling the thoughts that you think and the way you respond to the events of your life, you begin to control your destiny.

  Rohit Sharma

  Success, Spiritual, Destiny

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• It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

  Fred Rogers

  Years, Age, Goes On

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.19, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in the art of making meaning. It widens the space of our inner lives. It is a magical, mysterious, inexplicable (though not incomprehensible) event in language.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Space, Giving

  "Poet's Choice", www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2006.

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• When in our minds we pre-live our marriage, we help to determine the kind of person that we would like to be when that event arrives. As we pre-live our success, we develop the abilities necessary to bring it about. And with the information and direction given us in the Holy Scriptures we can even pre-live that important period that lies beyond the boundaries of this life.

  Sterling W Sill

  Lying, Mind, Important

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• Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it.  Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

  Chip Conley

  Emotional, People, Belief

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Writing, Two

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• Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.

  Ian Mortimer

  Past, Reality, Views

  Ian Mortimer (2012). “The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England”, p.3, Random House

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• Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountains which sustain life, not the top.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mean, Unique, Reality

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

  William Saroyan

  People, Ridiculous, Comic

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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• The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Science, Two, Achievement

  Gian-Carlo Rota (2009). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.214, Springer Science & Business Media

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• A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there. It is an active participant in those occurrences. Indeed, by virtue of its underlying and enveloping presence, the place may even be felt to be the source, the primary power that expresses itself through the various events that unfold there.

  David Abram

  Land, May, Culture

  David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.162, Vintage

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• Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

  Heinz Pagels

  Stars, Animal, Secret

  "Perfect symmetry: the search for the beginning of time".

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• The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns. In this state you think no impediment can be large enough to interrupt your passion. The feeling spills beyond the object of your love to color the whole world. The mood is not unlike the mood of revolutionaries in the first blush of victory, at the dawn of hope. Anything seems possible. And in the event of failure, it will be this taste of possibility that makes disillusion bitter.

  Susan Griffin

  Hope, Passion, Love Is

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• Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Details, Stories, Trials

  A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK

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• The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.

  James M. Kouzes

  Mean, Roots, Stories

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• The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Past, Supposing That, Giving

  William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books

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• There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Letting Go, Mistake

  "The Bridge Across Forever". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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• Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near future....So what is the rest of your future? A grisly list of unpleasant events -- exploding inflation, price controls, erosion of your savings (eventually to nothing), a collapse of private as well as government pension programs, and eventually an international monetary holocaust which will sweep all paper currencies down the drain and turn the world upside down.

  Howard Ruff

  Erosion, Government, Holocaust

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• Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few who have stayed, have stayed for a reason. A reciprocity of need and desire inspires the musicians to dig as deeply into their talent and souls as they are able. This mysterious and transformative confluence of events rarely happens in concert. It is the province of the nightclub.

  Patricia Barber

  Night, Inspire, Soul

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• Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.

  Story Musgrave

  Space, People, Done

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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