“There are situations in our lives that represent real challenges to our growth. These constitute about 10% or less of the stress that we will ever experience. The remaining 90% of stress is of our own fabrication. This automatically means that the odds are better than nine to one that if we drop our own tension about something, we are dropping something that was useless in the first place.”
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