Change Quote by Joan Didion

“You cannot control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

— Maya Angelou

“There are things that happen in life that we can't control. But we can control the way we respond to them.”

— vhalsky

“We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to…

— Viktor Frankl

“You may not be able to control what happens to you but you can control what happens within you.”

— Sue Augustine

“You would renounce organizing your future. You would let yourself be guided by the randomness of encounters and events, indifferent to one choice over…

— Édouard Levé

“You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“You must take control of events before they take control of you...If you don't do what you can for yourself, no one else will.”

— Suzanne Fisher Staples

“Some things are fate.  When you try to stop them from taking place, you only cause them to happen. ”

— K.C. Blake

“No one could control the length of their life, but they could control how they lived it.”

— Lindy Zart

“Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.”

— Patrick McGrath

“But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future…

— Marisa de los Santos

“It was more about understanding that you could give it your all, give yourself the best chances, but control is an illusion.”

— Harlan Coben