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Quotes About Situation

There was joy at their escape, and the jagged excitement at the prospect of battle. But there was also fear of the precariousness of their situation, and anxiety at the possibility that they might fail.
~ Jason Fry
Polvo echado, visita acabada, me dio que era una situación de esas: poco que hablar antes, y después nada.
~ Javier Marías
Emotional math is really a subset of a larger dynamic. When something goes wrong and I am part of it, I will tend to attribute my actions to the situation; you will tend to attribute my actions to my character.
~ Douglas Stone
By identifying what you are doing to perpetuate a situation, you learn where you have leverage to affect the system.
~ Douglas Stone
God wants to crown us, like David, with the authority to rule in ungodly situations. Intercessors rule from Hebron.
~ Dutch Sheets
clearly to be that of human subjectivity, which has nothing with which to challenge the given situation because it is itself a part or a product of the given situation. No new reality can be generated out of the present reality. Even what we call revolutionary is a product of the old world. 1 7
~ Eberhard Busch
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
So the pain-body, when it has taken you over, will create a situation in your life that reflects back its own energy frequency for it
~ Eckhart Tolle
What you refer to as your "life" should more accurately be called your "life situation." It is psychological time: past and future. Certain things in the past didn't go the way you wanted them to go. You are still resisting what happened in the past, and now you are resisting what is. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about
~ Eckhart Tolle
The ego] cannot tell the difference between an event and its reaction to that event. Every ego is a matter of selective perception and distorted interpretation. Only through awareness—not through thinking—can you differentiate between fact and opinion. Only through awareness are you able to see: There is the situation and here is the anger I feel about it, and then realize there are other ways of approaching the situation, other ways of seeing it and dealing with it.
~ Eckhart Tolle
So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the space underneath your life situation.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive response is the body's direct response to some external situation. An emotion, on the other hand, is the body's response to a thought.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.
~ Eckhart Tolle
What you refer to as your 'life' should more accurately be called your 'life situation'. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind stuff. Your life is real.
~ Eckhart Tolle
You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life. Life is primary. Life is your deepest inner Being.
~ Eckhart Tolle
And suddenly, as he noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonized herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate.
~ Edith Wharton
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
~ Aldous Huxley
As a matter of fact, in our personal lives, as in the lives of all peoples, inferiorities are not to be considered as the source of all evil. Only the situation can determine whether they are assets or liabilities.
~ Alfred Adler
I like to keep a high pace, violent fight. I don't like to waste time, and I don't like to go to the judges. I feel like I've fought long enough where I can adapt to just about any situation.
~ Eddie Alvarez
I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
~ Larry Hagman
I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them.
~ Derek Jeter
Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it isn't that they mutter and criticize; it is that the poet does not accept the situation called the 'perfect' condition of man - in other words, perfect in the materialistic sense.
~ Derek Walcott