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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Epictetus
Inspiring, Attitude, Events
"Victims and Values : A History and a Theory of Suffering". Book by Joseph Anthony Amato, David Monge (p. 36), 1990.
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.