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When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 16
Author
Philosopher
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Ulrich Leonard Tölle
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