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“The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible”
Albert Einstein
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me”
Abraham Lincoln
“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
Neil Gaiman
“The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year”
Eleanor Farjeon
“Only events and not a man's exertions in his own behalf, can make a President”
“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.”
Dan Millman
“In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings… But my encounters with the 'other' reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved on my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”
William James
“To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell”
Thomas Merton
“It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”
Anthony Robbins
