“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

— Carlos Castaneda , book Journey to Ixtlan

Variant: We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same
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Peruvian-American author 1925–1998

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