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“Our family never had any hard luck because nothing seemed hard luck to it nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.”
“I woman give birth: and this time to myself.”
“Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.”
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
“You are the product of your own brainstorm.”
“I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers but y...”
“Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.”
“Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.”
“Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.”
“You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done which may take some time you are fierce with reality.”
“I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.”
“I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.”
“Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the gr...”
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise.”
“It's not the load that breaks you down it's the way you carry it.”
“Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.”
“Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.”
“It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.”
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make...”
“Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the conse...”
