If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will … - Dale Carnegie

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I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a. m.

Dale Carnegie

If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.

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