If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against…

Rabindranath Tagore
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If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted. ✨ Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore, p.47, Cambridge University Press
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If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted. ✨ Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore, p.47, Cambridge University Press

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