"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."

-- Barbara Sher

#Expectations Quotes #Events Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“Death is the great transition.”
“Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.”
“But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.”

Source : Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“We live to love you more each day.”
“When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.”
“An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave; the best and the worst are only approximations to those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself. Who are they that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quantum of congruities and incongruities.”
“To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.”
“When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.”

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