If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire—then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. Learn to separate the inconveniences from the real problems. You will live longer. – Sigmund Wollman, quoted by Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh, 1991

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