This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

Phyllis McGinley
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  2. The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over. - Steve Maraboli

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  5. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Unknown

More Quotes By Phyllis McGinley
  1. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

  2. The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street – A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bore Over his shoulder, like a lance, A banner labeled “Tolerance.

  3. God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

  4. A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

  5. The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got hungry scolded God were egotistical or impatient in their turns made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

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