Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude. Essays
“It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.” The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
In historical events great men—so-called—are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity. War and Peace
“Have you never observed how invincible and unconquerable is spirit and how the presence of it makes the soul of any creature to be absolutely fearless and indomitable?” Republic
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