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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Motivational
Attitude
Happiness
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Happens
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React
Stress

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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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Most women want their youth back again but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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