Dan Pena Quotes

What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.

You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

You've just got to know yourself, and know what you're worth, and know where you're going, and know that you can always, always learn more.

I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there's lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.

I know my strengths and weaknesses, and I play to them.

That is life: you have to deal with things, and it's up to you how you deal with things. That's what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that's all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.

I absorb energy, I absorb the good, the bad, I absorb everything. That's what makes me who I am.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

The shape of your character is the shape of your future.

Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing-although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.