“Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. — To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.”

—  Bruce Lee

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 120

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