The Quote

“The two things that a man should never be angry at: what he can help and what he cannot help.”
-Thomas Fuller

I. The Man

• The only person that I have partial control over is me.
• I make the best possible choices that I can with the information that I have at the time.
• There are no good choices. There are no bad choices.
• I always have more than one choice, and the power to choose makes every action my own. Thus, what I do is what I have chosen to do, whether I like it or not.

II. The World

• The world is unordered, and unpredictable. It does what it will, and I cannot stop it, nor would I wish to.

II. The Past

• The past is a mental image distorted through both my perception and my memory.
• Given the distortions of this image, the past as I know it is merely an object in my mind that may or may not have existed.

III. The Future

• The future as I know it is merely a mental prediction, an unverifiable idea.
• I should not mistake this mental image for an accurate model.

IV. Present Tense

• If the past and future are merely symbolic, I have only the present tense.
• If I am only bound by the current moment, I am unbound, the possibilities are limitless, and happiness becomes the easiest choice to make.

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