We Cannot Control What Happens To Us Quotes

#1. Anna used to say that the Buddhists meditate about reactions. That we cannot control WHAT happens to us, only how we react to it.

Suzanne Hayes

#2. Much of the time, we cannot control what happens to us. But we can always control how we respond to what happens to us. If we cannot choose to be lucky, to be talented, to be loved, we can choose to be grateful, to be content with who we are and what we have, and to act accordingly.

Harold S. Kushner

#3. You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.

Nikki Rowe

#4. Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.

Ralph Fletcher

#5. None of these things are foretold to me; but either to my paltry body, or property, or reputation, or children, or wife. But to me all omens are lucky, if I will. For whichever of these things happens, it is in my control to derive advantage from it.

Epictetus

#6. I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

Sean Lennon

#7. I like to think that we're not defined by what happens to us ... because so many times they're beyond our control. I like to think that we're defined by our choices and our decisions.

Elizabeth Smart

#8. It is not about what happens to you - it is about how you perceive it. How you react to it. That is what you have control over. You can crumple up and die. Or you can be strong. That is what separates girls from women.

Morgan Rice

#9. No matter what happens in your life always try your best to stay in the moment. You can never control another persons emotions but you can always control yours.

Timothy Pina

#10. It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Elon Musk

#11. Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

Amy Winehouse

#12. Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Elizabeth George

#13. You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style.

Israelmore Ayivor

#14. Not everything that happens to us is within our control, my friend. Sometimes life gives us a swift kick in the ass, and we have to do the best we can with what we're given.

Felice Stevens

#15. I don't know that I believe that God is in control of everything that happens. As a Jew, I believe that we have free will and we are responsible for our actions. But I guess it's something I'm still probing.

David Gregory

#16. you can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails. It was his way of reminding us that you can't control most of what happens in life. You can only control your reaction to it.

Kristen Proby

#17. The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

Randy Couture

#18. We all know that life has ups and downs; you've experienced both. And though you can't always control what happens outside you, you can choose how you will respond. You can treat life as a dance rather than a wrestling match. You can become an active participant rather than a victim of circumstance.

Dan Millman

#19. You feel out of control, but we can't control everything that happens in life. Sometimes we just have to go where the tide takes us and know we'll cope with whatever comes along.

Sarah Morgan

#20. I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

Susan Sarandon

#21. I don't think you have any control over who you are-it just happens. Sometimes in the morning I wake up and don't know who I am. I have to get out of bed and open the closet door, and then I think, oh yes, I'm the girl in the red dress.

MacDonald Harris

#22. You can be surrounded by people all the time, but you feel so alone. I think that's when you can lose perspective and lose control of what you're doing. It's almost as if you have no fear and you don't really care about what happens to yourself.

Ladyhawke

#23. We can't control what happens around us but we can control what happens inside us. Walk in positive energy...live in peace.

Timothy Pina

#24. There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every individual thing that happens, every event, but that unfortunately the devil is in control of the timing.

Norman Rush

#25. Idea that you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you feel about it. Or, as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Eula Biss

#26. The dripping ... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.

Keith Haring

#27. And I remember telling God that whatever happens, happens. I remember telling myself He's in control.

Esther Earl

#28. I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

Nick Vujicic

#29. And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.

Arnold Bennett

#30. WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE.
WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS TO US THAN WHAT HAPPENS TO US.
HAPPINESS DOES NOT DEPEND ON WHAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF YOU BUT ON WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE OF YOU.

Marvin J. Ashton

#31. It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#32. Words that you use determine and control what happens in life.

Steven Redhead

#33. One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Joe Haldeman

#34. I have the opportunity to control what happens in a game. I'll have the ball in my hand, and only I know what I'm going to do with it.

Clinton Portis