Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get.
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
Stop scaring yourself with impetuous notions, with your reactive impressions if the way things are!
Things are not what we wish them to be nor what they seem to be. They are what they are.