“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
Variant: Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
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Jack Layton (1950–2011) Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
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“Can I remember— “I remember lots,” I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.”
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