“Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.”

“What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

“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

“You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.”

Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model

“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 isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.”

Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher

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

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

“It's wonderful to be able to read a newspaper that tells you what's going to happen--not just what's already happened. Anybody can tell you what's already happened, but the Bible tells you what's going to happen. Newspapers are not really newspapers; they're history papers. They tell you what's already happened--past news. But God has given us a lot of later news about today, the time in which we're living right now, and what's going to happen next. So the Bible is not just a history book, it's a news book. It not only tells you about yesterday, it also tells you about tomorrow.”

David Berg (1919–1994) Children of God founder

“It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers”

Alexandra Robbins (1976) American journalist

“Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!”

Rhonda Byrne (1951) Australian writer and producer