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"None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events."
"The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person."
"The dearest events are summer-rain."
"We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event."
"Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth."
"A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit."
"When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it."
"I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events."
"I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count."
"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
"Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen."
"The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art."
"In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them."
"Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes "good" from "bad" luck."
"The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine."
"Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it."
"A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment."
"Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it."
"Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day."
"Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE."
