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1 " Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we’re forced to undergo the event twice—once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it. "
― , Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
2 " When actors encounter a mishap during a stage performance,they transform it for good purpose by employing a technique called,“use the difficulty.” How can you “use the difficulty” in your life? "
― Gina Greenlee , Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
3 " No one, I fancy, would discredit a story that the Archbishop of Canterbury slipped on a banana skin merely because he found that a similar comic mishap had been reported of many people, and especially of elderly gentlemen of dignity. "
― J.R.R. Tolkien , Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
4 " My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me. "
