“Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.”

—  Richard Carlson

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Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker 1961–2006

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