If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

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If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you. This is me and my friend and we were talking and she said this and I just thought that was a really cool way to look at things. If we think we're unhappy, we're probably the ones who caused the problems for ourselves! We made those decisions and now we have to deal with the consequences! We don't usually think about it as "giving away our peace" but instead as "giving up on something". It's not that the world wants us to be sad or anything like that, but if we make those bad decisions or don't try hard enough on a project, then we're going to end up sad anyway! We can't control what happens to us, but we can control what happens inside of us! Our circumstances are not going to change on their own, so we have to work hard on ourselves and make sure that we're happy with how things are going!

Source: Be A People Person

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