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01Undated

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Phyllis Bottome / quote

02Undated

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Bottome / quote

03Undated

We cannot alter facts but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

Phyllis Bottome / quote

04Undated

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

Phyllis Bottome / quote

05Undated

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Phyllis Bottome / quote

06Undated

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

Phyllis Bottome / quote

07Undated

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

Phyllis Bottome / quote

08Undated

To see a shadow and think it is a tree-that is a pity but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

Phyllis Bottome / quote