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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Speaker: Mark TwainSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realized, somehow, that through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.