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“Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.”
“Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.”
“If you can't fight and you can't flee flow.”
“She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it to belong to...”
“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.”
“Don't be sad don't be angry if life deceives you! Submit to your grief your time for joy will come believe me.”
“When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil w...”
“For so must it be and help me do my part.”
“Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.”
“In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome stubbornness is stupid.”
“To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.”
“Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.”
“If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.”
“Genius does what it must talent does what it can.”
“Results are what you expect consequences are what you get.”
“Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals" or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limi...”
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.”
“We do not write as we want but as we can.”
“We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.”
“Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.”
