Robert Graves’s poem praises the fictive Alice for her “uncommon sense,” being “of a speculative bent,” in accepting her adventures in her chance-discovered land as being
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”
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“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
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“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
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“There is no perfection only life”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
― Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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