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