"You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not."

-- Epictetus

#Joy Quotes #Secret Quotes

“Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.”
“My temper is under control," he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares.”
“My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.”

Source : "My art is a form of restoration". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.
“Finally, in 1954 [Ho Chi Minh] agreed to the Geneva Agreement, which divided the country temporarily into two zones, in the hope that national elections might unify the country under his leadership.”
“Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.”

Source : A Mathematician's Apology ch. 8 (1940)
“Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day." ~Fablehaven - Rise of the Evening Star”
“Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.”
“As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.”

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