Eleanor RooseveltYou can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.
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When you try to adjust your life to be like you want it to, you end up frustrated and unhappy. What you need to do is to accept what life gives you and make the most of it.
Source: This I Remember
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