“How did money ever happen? What's it mean? What's it for?”

“At the end of a person's life that's what they are looking at. What happened inside? How did that experience change me, and how did I change it?”

Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)

“What really happened to her? How did she die?”

Sukarno (1901–1970) first President of the Republic of Indonesia

“Money had no name of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Always say what you mean and mean what you say. Express how you feel and don’t ever apologize for being real.”

Ralph Smart

“What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed, profoundly, how he perceived their motivations, their place in the world.”

Sherwood Smith book The Fox

“Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.”

Brad Meltzer (1970) writer

“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”

Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945) Novelist, short story writer

“Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“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 …