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Pain From Problems And Disappointments, Etc., Is Inevitable In Life, But Suffering Is A Choice Determined By Whether You Choose To Compare Your Experience And Pain To Something Better And Therefore Feel Unlucky And Bitter Or To Something Worse And Therefore Feel Lucky And Grateful!

In Psychiatry There Is A Certain Condition Known As Delusion Of Reprieve. The Condemned Man, Immediately Before His Execution, Gets The Illusion That He Might Be Reprieved At The Very Last Minute. No One Could Yet Grasp The Fact That Everything Would Be Taken Away. All We Possessed, Literally, Was Our Naked Existence.

Success Is Total Self-acceptance.

It Is A Peculiarity Of Man That He Can Only Live By Looking To The Future.

As Such, I Also Bear Witness To The Unexpected Extent To Which Man Is Capable Of Defying And Braving Even The Worst Conditions Conceivable.