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"Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged."

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them."

"External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. And you can wipe out that assessment now."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is perspective, not truth."

"Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside."

"A man is affected not by events, but by the view he takes of them."

"Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them."

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

"Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been."

"A man is affected not by events, but by the view he takes of them."

"Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them."

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