Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
I have written and said countless times it is not what happens to you in life that makes a difference! It is how we react to what happens to us in life that creates our history and - more importantly - our future!
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
It's not what happens in life, it's how you react to what happens in life.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.
It is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your everyday experiences for signs of results. Indeed, your daily life is nothing else but an expression of your spiritual condition. Your life will change as you become more loving, but not in ways you can exactly predict. What happens is not important as how you react to what happens.
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
The thing is, the more you fear death, the more you die. So it really doesn't pay off. It's a fear of the dark. Like any experience in life, you wonder, Well, if this ever happens, how would I react? and then it happens, and only then do you know.
Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.
Its not what happens that counts...
It's how you react.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.