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The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

Andrew Weil

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Andrew Weil
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 8
Medical Doctor
Medical Writer
Physician
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Andrew Thomas Weil
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