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“We ourselves are responsible for what happens to us, whether or not we can understand how. It follows that we can change what happens to us by changing ourselves; we can take our destiny into our own hands.”
—Bhagavad Gita
“It isn’t the events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgements about them.” —Epictetus
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
—Rumi
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
—Seneca
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”
—Eckhart Tolle
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
—Epictetus
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
—Albert Einstein
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
—Maya Angelou