“Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”
“Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get.”
“We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”
“Don’t seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but wish that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you’ll have a calm and happy life.”
“Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.”
“Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.”
“Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.”
“No great thing is created suddenly.”