That is what it is. We can’t change it. We just have to decide how we’ll respond.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

"We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand" - From The Last Lecture Randy Pauch

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

humans have between what happens to us and our response to it.

We cannot change what we are unaware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

There are very few things we can know beforehand. We will try and if we find we are wrong, we will have to change.

We can’t always choose our circumstances but we can choose how we respond to what life throws at us, and there is power when we realize our ability to alter our destiny.

When something doesn’t go according to plan, we have a choice to either resist it or incorporate it.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

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