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1 " I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of " You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." ) "
2 " Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. "
― Richard Bach
3 " Maybe all the events of the last few months had occured for just one reason - to bring Thad and me together. Perhaps our being here on the Titanic wasn't pre-destination, but rather, destiny. "
― Suzanne Weyn (Distant Waves)
4 " He was a stranger here. The people who might remember him would certainly not welcome him. His old gang had cast him out, along with all of the former friends and parents. The suburban landscape of hypocrisy, so hated in his youth, beheld again and with it, old feelings that motivated him through life more than he would ever admit. Every turning point in life, already decided by all the events here "
― Jaime Allison Parker , The Delta Highway
5 " In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the events of history are loosely stitched upon the endless loom of eternity. Secretly, we are each tied to the divine. "
6 " The Republic of Venice used to boast that, in the space of three months, it could know all the events of the Mediterranean. We see the astronauts, from the distance of a few feet, at the very moment they land on the moon. Unfortunately the news almost swamps us with its frequency and abundance. It doesn't give us time to reflect: we are so constantly amazed that gradually we lose our capacity for being surprised at anything, and we don't enjoy even beautiful things. "
― Pope John Paul I , Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I
7 " It is the ego's purpose that makes everything seem dis-united and like separate events. The constant purpose is the thread that ties all events together. The script is really a continuous thing, rather than discreet events. I did this next and this happened, then I went there. That is the way it is talked about when the mind believes in sequential time and events. But once we get a sense that there is purpose that ties them all together, that is when the fusion between all the events takes place. "
― David Hoffmeister , Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles
8 " You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. "
― Maya Angelou , Letter to My Daughter
9 " Without knowing it, he had constructed a gigantic vertical zoo, its hundreds of cages stacked above each other. All the events of the past few months made sense if one realised that these brilliant and exotic creatures had learned to open the doors. "
― J.G. Ballard , High-Rise
