"You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them."

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Source : Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.143, Profile Books

Atul Gawande

#Mean Quotes #May Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.”
“You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.”

Source : Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.32, Penguin
“In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.”
“I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.”
“Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.”
“It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”

Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers
“Most people who succeed in life have no clue that what they are trying to achieve is impossible.”
“The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.”

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