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"Your will, your ability to choose resilience and alacrity over lamentation and sorrow, is your greatest strength. You may not always be able to choose what happens to you, but you always have the power choose how you respond to it. No animal, human, or god can stop you."

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Angelface 7 Apr 7
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This is one of the basic tenants of Stoicism.

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My Mom told me this in one sentence, and I am so glad she did:
"You choose your own Heaven or Hell on this earth."

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What a great word, “alacrity”. Adding to my vocabulary garden. ?

@LaMariposa, I hear you

@AMNOTGOD That is perhaps a little presumptuous. What does a good vocabulary have to do with political inclinations?

@AMNOTGOD English is my second language. I appreciate learning rich words.

@LaMariposa Even here or perhaps, especially here there are trolls. A good vocabulary in any language is an achievement!

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I have found adaptability to be one of my greatest assets.

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