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• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

  Epictetus

  Attitude, People, Wish

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• The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.

  Russell Simmons

  Past, Giving, Important

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• Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

  Vladimir Putin

  Military, Russia, Should Have

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• Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

  Nick Vujicic

  Trying, Defeat, Refuse

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.43, WaterBrook

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• I learned that if a relationship is honest, it can last through anything despite all the challenges we have to face and everything that happens around us.

  Robert Pattinson

  Challenges, Lasts, Faces

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• What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Worthy, Whole

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• If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what`s going to happen to the stock market.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Years, People

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• Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

  Clive Barker

  Being Yourself, Kings, Stars

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from May 19, 2013

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• Letting go does not mean pushing away or negating thoughts or feelings that come to us - but instead being with the feeling. We start to feel that we are no longer victims of the stuff that happens to us. There is something we can do about it... if we just take a look at it.

  Krishna Das

  Letting Go, Mean, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Oct 09, 2013

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• I'm Larry David. I happen to enjoy wearing women's panties.

  Larry David

  Panties, Enjoy, Larry

  "Curb your enthusiasm:'Officer Krupke' review" by Cheryl David, www.ign.com. November 9, 2009.

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• Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

  Mark Twain

  Worthwhile Things, Accomplishment, Achievement

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• When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Miracle, World

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• Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.

  Erin Andrews

  Eye, Looks, Prize

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• Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.

  Earl Nightingale

  Law, Strange, Harmony

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• The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Mean, Democracy, Three

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• Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

  Marjorie Holmes

  People, Remember, Let Me

  Marjorie Holmes (1982). “I've Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations with God”, Bantam

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• I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.

  Carl Jung

  Soul, Would Be, Silent

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.

  Chris Priestley

  Real, Stories, May

  Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my sunglasses, something unspoken passes between me and the bird - there's this weird kind of tension, a bizarre pressure, that fuels the following, which starts, happens, ends, very quickly.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Eye, Bird, Owl

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

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• Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

  Jim Butcher

  Pain, Two, Important

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1664, Penguin

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• Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope.

  Serena Williams

  Growing Up, Balls, Rich Family

  "Serena Williams extends run over Maria Sharapova to win Australian Open" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2015.

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• God won't allow anything happen in your life if it's not for your good.

  Nick Vujicic

  Ifs, Things Happen

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• When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

  Mark Twain

  Kentucky, Years, World

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• On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.

  Marianne Williamson

  New Beginnings, Path, Moments

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 23, 2011

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