“So now what? What happens when words fail us?”

“When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.”

Francine Pascal Fearless

“What occurs when, now and then, thinking really works productively? What happens when, now and then, thinking forges ahead? What is really going on in such a process?”

Max Wertheimer (1880–1943) Co-founder of Gestalt psychology

“Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

“So the written Constitution, the one we can see, fails to tell us just what's in it and what's not.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

“It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us.”

Anita Stansfield (1961) American writer

“What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other”

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

“It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist