People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
Genius does what it must talent does what it can.
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
Results are what you expect consequences are what you get.
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals " or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain li...
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
we do not write as we want but as we can
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential for the eye which ever young and ardent sees the possible ... what wine is so s...
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
It is impossible to control creation.
To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.
Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable and often impossible.
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