Negative and difficult things happen to all of us; most of them are mostly or completely out of our control. It’s how we react, how we view those circumstances and conditions, that makes the difference between success and failure—and that is completely within our control. As the American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” Don’t complain about what you allow.
