"You can no more control life than a raft on white water can control the river. You can learn to work with the river--to dance with life--but you cannot control it.....
......Real control is not about controlling---it is about going with what is there. As you learn from martial arts, the secret is not to try to control others by brute force, but to use the energy that is there to your advantage.
Those who thrive no longer push and pull at life in some tug of war. People who are living their lives fully have gone beyond spending whatever energy they have insisting that the world operate on their terms--the weather, the traffic, their children, their job. Life is, indeed, what happens when you've made other plans."
-----Quoted from a book by Henry C. Simmons, Ph. D. and E Craig MacBean: "Thriving After 55. Your Guide to Fully Living the Rest of Your Life" page 198. Copyright 2000. Published by PrimeDynamics, LLC, Richmond, VA 23228. ISBN: 0-9668813-1-1.
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