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“"Okay I have arthritis and this is the way arthritis is." Take pain as it comes and you can better master it.”
“It is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.”
“Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.”
“You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.”
“Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.”
“When necessity speaks it demands.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.”
“Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.”
“A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.”
“There are some people that you cannot change you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.”
“The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”
“The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.”
“If you bear the cross unwillingly you make it a burden and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.”
“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.”
“I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in which we face them that constitutes our comfort.”
“To act with common sense according to the moment is the best wisdom and the best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodne...”
“Ask not that events should happen as you will but let your will be that events should happen as they do and you shall have peace.”
“The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation the ability to accept the inevit...”
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.”
“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.”
