"Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them."

-- Epictetus

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“I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she was very glad that he still had his face pressed into his pillow and the other boys were still in Noah's room. "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.”
“Heaven help the man who fights his fear.”

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“I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.”
“Sometimes I can't draw or take a picture of something, though, if the color is a certain way and the only way to see it is to see it in person.”

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“Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.”
“And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.”
“See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”
“If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."”

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