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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

  Gore Vidal

  World, Individual, Casual

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

  Clarence Darrow

  Reading, Law, Two

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• Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning...What are you planning?

  Esther Hicks

  Positive, Thinking, Appreciate

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• To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Ideas, Age

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• With stillness comes the benediction of peace”.
  “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.  Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.  This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Real, Thinking, Illusion

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• What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event and fact of cosmic history. From then on everything is differentthe End came forward into the present in Jesus the Messiah

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Example, Facts

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• I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Powerful, War, Emotional

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• Now, when anything 'bad' happens, I remember that everything that ever happens to me has within it the seeds of something better. I look for the upside rather than the downside. I ask myself, 'Where's the greater benefit in this event?'

  Jack Canfield

  Looks, Benefits, Remember

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• The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

  Amanda Ripley

  Risk, Management, Individual

  Amanda Ripley (2009). “The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes - and why”, p.63, Random House

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• You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.

  Andrew Solomon

  Motivational, Hurt, Self

  "How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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• High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Over You

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

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• Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.

  Suketu Mehta

  Shapes, Retrospect, Life Is

  Suketu Mehta (2009). “Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found”, p.6, Vintage

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• Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Feel Better, Long

  "The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), September 30, 1999.

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• Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Confidence, Courage, Fear

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• Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• 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

  Self, Personal Transformation, Transition

  Tom O'Connor, Ahmed González-Núñez (1987). “Living With AIDS: Reaching Out”, Corwin Pub

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

  Og Mandino

  Home, Adversity, Apollo 13

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• Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Motivational, Fear, Cancer

  Neale Donald Walsch (2010). “Friendship with God: An uncommon dialogue”, p.45, Hachette UK

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

  John Cage

  Errors, Actuality, Preconceptions

  Silence 1961 45' for a Speaker

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• It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Numbers, Quality, Actors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.204, Library of America

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• Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

  Joshua Foer

  Summer, Jobs, Memories

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• My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.

  Florence Henderson

  Easy, Difficult, Majors

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  You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

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