I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

The great events of one's life often leave one unmoved: they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us.

The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

People to whom nothing has ever happened Cannot understand the unimportance of events.

Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in today already walks tomorrow.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

What really matters is what happens in us, not to us.

Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.