“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
“You may not be able to control what happens to you but you can control what happens within you.”
“And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don't have.”
“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.”
“All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.”