Epictetus Quote: It's not what happens to you, but how you react

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

— Epictetus

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

— Epictetus

From Discourses and Selected Writings

Source

Discourses, Book I

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.