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

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

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

“He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.”

“History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.”

“Often we ask ourselves
to make absolute sense
out of what just happens,
and in this way, what we are practicing

is suffering,
which everybody practices,
but strangely few of us
grow graceful in.”

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

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

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

“I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.”