“It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.”
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Yanni
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
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Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer 1954Related quotes
“We're slow to believe what wounds us.”
Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
II, 9-10; translation by A. S. Kline
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Carroll Quigley
(1910–1977) American historian
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)
Sathya Sai Baba
(1926–2011) Indian guru
Sathyam, Sivam, Sundaram - Part 3. by N. Kasturi. Page 305 US ed. Next to the last chapter.
“Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.”
Simone de Beauvoir
(1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Fyodor Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov; this was used as an epigraph in The Blood of Others, and is sometimes attributed to de Beauvoir
Misattributed
Javier Marías
(1951) Spanish writer
Todo lo que nos sucede, todo lo que hablamos o nos es relatado, cuanto vemos con nuestros propios ojos o sale de nuestra lengua o entra por nuestros oídos, todo aquello a lo que asistimos (y de lo cual, por tanto, somos algo responsables), ha de tener un destinatario fuera de nosotros mismos, y a ese destinatario lo vamos seleccionando en función de lo que acontece o nos dicen o bien decimos nosotros.
Source: Todas las Almas [All Souls] (1989), p. 140
Fred Rogers
(1928–2003) American television personality
Commencement Address at Middlebury College May, 2001 http://web.archive.org/web/20030906163501/http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/pubaff/general_info/addresses/Fred_Rogers_2001.htm
