Top 100 What Happens To You Quotes
#1. You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).
Kim Stanley Robinson
#2. No matter what happens to you in life, you just roll with it. And then, when we went back to shoot Eclipse, I went to Quileute and taught some acting to the kids, and just got to spend some time in the community, which was great because it gave me an idea of where Emily came from.
Tinsel Korey
#3. You're not responsible for all the things that happen to you, but you are responsible for how you react to what happens to you. You either stay on your knees or you get up. Those are your choices.
Eileen Cruz Coleman
#4. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
[Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']
John F. Kennedy
#5. In this life you will have some trials and tribulations. You cannot allow what happens to you to dictate who and what you become. Make a decision to do better and be better.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#6. 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
#7. The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.
Benjamin Carson
#8. Resilience is not what happens to you. It's how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#9. Through Sahaja Yoga what happens to you, that you become a collective personality.
Nirmala Srivastava
#10. I asked her why my father resisted the guards when they always won in the end. Why didn't he just save himself the pain and pay them what they wanted? She told me that sometimes, you can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. That's why my father fought back.
Jessica Khoury
#11. Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
John Lennon
#12. Dying is active. Dying is not what happens to you. Dying is what you do. Dying
Stephen Jenkinson
#13. It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.
Earl Nightingale
#14. There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.
Neil MacGregor
#15. You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.
Nikki Rowe
#16. What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad.
Bernard Cornwell
#17. It's not important in life what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you.
Zelda La Grange
#18. 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
#19. The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.
Willie Brown
#20. Love is a strange feeling! And you cannot understand what happens to you when it does happen to you.
Avijeet Das
#21. Facts are important, the story is important. It's what happens to you that changes your life, not where or who with.
Fabio Geda
#22. Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?
Jodi Picoult
#23. Sometimes in an incarnation you get a feeling of frustration. It is not working out the way you want. If you pull your power together and meditate, no matter what happens to you physically, you will have gained from this life.
Frederick Lenz
#24. I think that it doesn't matter if I travel all over the place. I'll always be a normal teenager on the inside. It always depends on how you act yourself, not what happens to you. That's my view of it all.
Jackie Evancho
#25. It is not what happens to you that matters; it is how you feel about it that does.
Shannon L. Alder
#26. It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the book is said to be sexy, the crazies come out of the woodwork.
Erica Jong
#27. It's NOT what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you that shapes your future
Jason Vale
#28. It isn't what happens to you in your life that destroys you. It's what you do about it.
Aimee L. Salter
#29. What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you.
Donald L. Hicks
#30. Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.
Ken Blanchard
#31. Indeed. That pony collection isn't nearly complete," Carter mused. When I dared a look back at him, I saw that the angel was smiling at me. "You see? You aren't lost. No matter what happens to you, you have a plan. There's still hope.
Richelle Mead
#32. Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#33. It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!
Terry Riley
#34. Can you actually go through life without labeling what happens to you as good or bad? Sure you can. You have to train yourself to do this. You have been conditioned to think of things as bad or good. You can de-condition yourself. It is neither easy nor fast but it is possible.
Srikumar Rao
#35. Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.
Barbara Burke
#36. When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.
Srikumar Rao
#37. Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% how you React to it, Stay Strong, Be Unstoppable.
Diamond Dallas Page
#38. You can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. ~Aladdin
Jessica Khoury
#39. What happens to you does not matter; what you become through those experiences is all that is significant. This is the true meaning of life." -- author unknown,
Erin Arvedlund
#40. It's funny what happens to you when part of your heart gets born inside somebody else.
Donald Miller
#41. The real question here is what happens to you, Gunther. In many ways you're a useful fellow to have around. Like a bent coat hanger in a toolbox, you're not something that was ever designed for a specific job, but you do manage to come in useful sometimes.
Philip Kerr
#42. You have both feet in both worlds at the same time, at least for now. An understanding of this may or may not change what happens to you in this world, but it will definitely change how you see, react to, and handle things, especially if you keep in mind the new knowledge you have of where you are.
Van Harden
#43. 10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
Charles R. Swindoll
#44. If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
John C. Maxwell
#45. It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.
Epictetus
Epictetus
#46. Remember that you create your world. It's not what happens to you, but how you choose to deal with it.
Dana Delany
#48. When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you.
Jerry Savelle
#49. What happens to you happens from you.
Alan Cohen
#50. Life is not what happens to you but what you think about it.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Not what happens to you
But how you accept it
Is of paramount importance.
Sri Chinmoy
#52. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Kahlil Gibran
#53. I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
Al Franken
#54. To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
Sam Snead
#56. Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
Steve Backley
#57. What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#58. No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
Josh McDowell
#59. Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
Cesare Pavese
#60. Life is like business, 20% of what happens to you is 80% of how you react.
Daymond John
#61. I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
Chelsea Clinton
#62. Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.
Nicholas Evans
#64. That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suffering right now because it's out of your hands what happens to you with age.
Bo Derek
#65. All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react.
John Wooden
#66. Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks ... It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there, powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.
Frederick Buechner
#67. It's not what happens to you that determines your happiness. It's how you think about what happens to you.
Andrew Matthews
#68. Life changes. It's usually in the blink of an eye. One minute everything's fine, if not stagnant; then, it's not. But your character's not defined by what happens to you but by how you respond to those emotionally significant events. Who will you become when your life turns on a dime?
Bobby Cole
#69. Being alone is a terrible, terrible thing. There's no one to run to, no one to confide in, no one who cares what happens to you.
Richelle Mead
#70. No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.
Alexis Wright
#71. Its not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens you
Aldous Huxley
#72. Happiness is not about what happens to you, but how you choose to respond to what happens.
Karen Salmansohn
#73. No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.
Peter McWilliams
#74. We forget: In life, it doesn't matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you've been given.
Ryan Holiday
#76. TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
Tom Petty
#77. Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.
Frederick Lenz
#78. If you're great, you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But, if you're only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens to you is lost. (Read by Henry Miller)
Henry Miller
#79. It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.
Zig Ziglar
#80. Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.
Mel Brooks
#81. It's not what happens to you that is most important, but what happens IN you because only you determine what happens through you."
~ Keith Craft
Mary Banos
#82. You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.
Dick Van Dyke
#83. He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#84. No matter what happens to you, you do not have to be bitter. You deserve to be happy.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
Barry Manilow
#86. If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.
Jack Bruce
#87. It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.
Alan Ball
#88. Life is one percent what happens to you, and ninety-nine percent how you respond to it.
Shubhra Krishan
#89. Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.
Mason Cooley
#90. Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.
Rick Warren
#91. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame ... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#92. Happiness is what happens to you when you get lost in love.
Debasish Mridha
#93. If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
Sam Waterston
#94. At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.
Julia Ormond
#95. Ike always loved the sunshine, and I like to imagine that wherever he is now, it's as sunny as can be. Of course, nobody knows what happens to you after you die, but it's nice to think of my husband someplace very, very hot, don't you think?
Lemony Snicket
#96. No matter what happens to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to it. When you form the habit of searching for the positive in every circumstance, your life will move into its highest dimensions. This is one of the greatest of all the natural laws.
Robin S. Sharma
#97. And you?" she asked. "What happens to you in that scenario?" I die a little each day we're apart. "I ... get by. And I miss you, every day." Every hour, every minute ... every second.
S.C. Stephens
#98. How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.
Peter F. Hamilton
#99. It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude.
Sumner Davenport
#100. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.
Brian Tracy
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