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"When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it."
"I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me."
"Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss."
"I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail."
"She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another."
"The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives."
"One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all."
"Very sad, very upset, very glad I did not have to hear about this though Twitter. Probably going to be taking some time off it for a while."
"I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that."
"It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health."
"When someone is upset, it’s not a good time to bring up your own problems."
"A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and soon, I don't doubt. There always has been. There'll be deaths and disappointments and failures. When they come, you meet them."
"I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason."
"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
"I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault."
"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."
"That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone."
"Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them."
"Don't allow yourself to be upset and disturbed. Hold your peace because without it you have no power."
"I'm no longer curious about things that will upset me."
