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“None of us can control the hand of Fate, or the actions of others. The only thing we can control is how we choose to react.
If that is what you find, it is up to you to change it for the better.
every Kelpien learned was that the essential nature of life and the universe is impermanence: everything changes, and everything ends. Trying to resist that truth is the root of all suffering.
“Self-Pity” by D. H. Lawrence: I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
“Even worse,” Georgiou said, “is to watch people put something so precious at risk for nothing more than greed. Bad enough to damage a world out of ignorance. But to do it willfully, in spite of knowing the truth . . . that’s a breed of selfishness I just can’t understand.”
