Control Your Reactions

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Only the educated are free. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.