"Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you."
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"Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If it concerns anything outside your control, train yourself not to worry about it."
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"Being on the road and doing events is like getting kids ready for school for most families."
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"We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events."
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"Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance."
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"In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others."
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"In the event of war, I'm a hostage."
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"We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back."
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"People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events."
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"To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control."
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"Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception."
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"I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story you have to report is just part of something bigger. The news isn't what happened last night - it's some cumulative thing that's happened over centuries. I found it hard to think of one event and drag it out of a bubbling pot and present it as the story that explains it all."
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"The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person."
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"Coming events cast their shadows before."
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"Rock is stronger than any misguided theories of cultural events. It's bigger than that."
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"Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass."
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"Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events."
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"The solution is to change from the negative to the positive and one way to do that is to remember that failure is an event - it is not a person. Another way is to understand that your child might make a mistake, but the child is not a mistake"
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"But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it."
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"Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself."
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