“What molds us is what maims us.”

“We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended.”

Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French author

“What hurts us is what heals us.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

“Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

“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

“By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice

“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 …