Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they read more

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered read more

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. read more

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their read more

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have read more

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write read more

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn read more

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.