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“Happiness comes from within a man from some curious adjustment to life.”
“Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.”
“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.”
“It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment...”
“One's first step in wisdom is to question everything one's last is to come to terms with everything.”
“If you are wise live as you can if you cannot live as you would.”
“For this is wisdom: to live to take what fate or the Gods may give.”
“Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations you don't have a job.”
“When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.”
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
“Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.”
“The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.”
“I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.”
“I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken as well as those outside.”
“The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.”
“If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimi...”
“If you cast away one cross you will certainly find another and perhaps a heavier.”
“Science says: "We must live " and seeks the means of prolonging increasing facilitating and amplifying life of making it tolerable and acceptable wisdom says: "We must die " and seeks how to make u...”
“As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.”
“Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them.”
