16. “I am not my circumstances; I am the way I respond to them.”
Life is full of surprises, both good and bad. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters,” Epictetus said. Your circumstances may be out of your control, but your response is always your choice.
17. “I will embrace discomfort as a path to growth.”
Growth comes from pushing beyond your comfort zone. As Neale Donald Walsch put it, “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” Embrace discomfort, for it’s in those moments that you truly grow.
