Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach
You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances
but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
- Joy Page
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions,
everything we have done, and have not done.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Your RESPONSE to any situation is your own RESPONSibility.
You are given your circumstances; you choose your response.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Don't Give Up
Thoughtful Response, Not Panic
Life is Not Hopeless
Create Happiness