Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
We cannot wish for that we know not.
We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.
We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.