“Life is 5% what happens and 95% how you react!”

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.”

Jeffrey Gitomer (1946) American writer

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

“Responsibility is the cornerstone of awakening. Essentially, what responsibility is, is owning your own life. To become responsible is to step into this ability and chose to both create and respond to your life instead of to passively react to it as if it is happening to you. It is stepping into authority over yourself.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“You can see how the word responsibility is in essence the ability to respond. To become responsible is to step into this ability and chose to both create and respond to your life instead of to passively react to it as if it is happening to you. It is stepping into authority over yourself. It is a highly empowered state. It is a state of accountability.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“In life, the important is not what happens, but how we deal with it.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer