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I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
English
Dramatist
Born:
Jul 3
,
1937
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.
Joel Osteen
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Life
Tough Times
You
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Tough
Nothing
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Through
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Times
Going
Happens
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
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You
Events
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Will
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Over
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Your
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
Wade Boggs
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Attitude
Thoughts
Positive Attitude
Events
Extraordinary
Outcomes
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Catalyst
Reaction
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Sparks
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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx
Happiness
Today
Day
Me
Be Happy
Happy
Events
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Tomorrow
Power
Yesterday
One Day
Shall
Dead
Make
Arrived
Going
Just
Just One
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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life
Silence
Learning
Yourself
Events
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Everything
Touch
Given
Purpose
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Blessings
Learn
Within
Get
Us
Coincidences
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou
You
Events
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Reduced
May
Happen
Decide
Them
If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.
Elizabeth Thornton
People
Judge
Events
Sometimes
Interpretation
Assumptions
Our
Ourselves
Admit
Take
Wrong
Causes
Preconceived
Unfairly
Personally
Us
Notions
Therefore
Things
Honest
Incorrect
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert Kennedy
Work
History
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Generation
Events
Will
Few
Bend
This Generation
Those
Total
Small
Written
Greatness
Itself
The History Of
Us
Each
Acts
Portion
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
Time
Events
Strong
Will
Too
Sight
Brought
River
Takes
Sooner
Sort
Another
Passing
Than
Current
Place
Swept
Away
Thing
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