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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.”