When you feel disappointed, it is yourself you are disappointed in. It is not that you expected too much of life. It is yourself you expected too much of. You expected that you would set the course of your life. Well, of course, you do, yet life often does not sing your tune. At times like this, you make too much of something and not enough of yourself. Why be deflated because of one thing or another? Give yourself more credit. You are not one of those figures at a fair that get knocked down every time they’re hit.
Mastery over life does not mean that you have all the say over it. It means you are master of yourself. It means you look higher than the ground you walk upon. It means that you know nothing is to rebuke you. You are the one who decides how…
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