You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

i can be changed by what happens to me. but i refuse to be reduced by it.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.