Welcome to day four of "Slaying Dragons Week" in which I am celebrating my newly-released book,  Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year .  I am sharing daily quotes from the book this week, as well as a bit of trivia regarding the making of it. Here is the quote for today:

        “ Everything in the world that happens to you may be someone else's doing; I'll grant you that.  But what you do with it, how you react to it, what you make of yourself in the midst of it all—that's totally you. ”

Did you know that this book is the third I have written of its kind? Two collections of my original quotes and poetry precede it; the first, Smile Anyway, dedicated to my sister and the second, Making Wishes, dedicated to my eldest son.  In total, all three amount to over 1,000 daily inspirations!  A fairly decent accomplishment, if I do say so myself!