„What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.“

— Jean Paul Sartre
„The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us“
— Gloria Steinem
„We are not what happened to us,we are what we wish to become.“
— C.G. Jung
„what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us," Mr Whittier says, "It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.“
— Horace Mann