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Balance isn't either/or it's 'and'.

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
Author
Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.
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