“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.”

“We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.”

“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.”

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

“Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.”