Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‘Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,’ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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