"The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it."

— Chris Pine

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

— Viktor E. Frankl

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

— Carl Jung

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

— Abraham Lincoln

"If you want to be happy, be."

— Leo Tolstoy

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

— J.R.R. Tolkien

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

— Abraham Maslow

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

— Dr. Seuss

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."

— Viktor E. Frankl