
“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.”
Source: Where the Heart Leads
“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.”
“It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us”
“We are not what happened to us,
we are what we wish to become.”
“Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.”
Greg Heberlein (September 28, 1986) "'Doctor' Lefevre Seeks Cure For Hospitalized Bull Market", The Seattle Times, p. C2.
Attributed
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Attributed to Thoreau, in The Life You Were Born to Live : A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose (1995) by Dan Millman, p. xi, and to Ralph Waldo Emerson in Promotion of Pharmaceuticals : Issues, Trends, Options (1993) by Dev S. Pathak, Alan Escovitz, and Suzan Kucukarslan, p. 74, but no occurrence of it prior to the 1990s has been located.
Disputed