“Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”

“Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”

“Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.”

“It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.”

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

“-Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?”

“Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.”