We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
Concern should drive us into action not into a depression.
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."
When you understand the internal process of life, first time, you realize that the personal identity that you carry in your mind, exists only at the time of momentary experience, and as the experience...
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.
All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
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