Quotes About Circumstances

You can't always control your circumstances, but you can choose to be happy. When you're unhappy it's not the result of circumstances but the result of thought, which is why feeling unhappy often coincides with feelings of helplessness. To be happy is associated with the knowledge that how you think and feel will always be your choice, which will put you in charge of your life.

People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."—As A Man Thinketh

We have to have a vision for our life, for what we want to become. Most importantly, we have to cher-ish it and hold on tightly to it when circumstances are telling us that we'll never see our vision.

A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances."—As A Man Thinketh

It's pretty much the same for all circumstances in your life. Your outer abundance will reflect your inner abundance, and your outer lack will reflect your inner lack. If you want to change your circumstances, you must become the person in the circumstances you want to live in.

Unfortunately, by then, he had already seen the last of his beloved elephant Bandoola. The great tusker had been killed before war's end, in circumstances that would haunt Williams for the rest of his life. It was, he would always maintain, nothing short of murder

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms -- to chose one's attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, and given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the living.' Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852

Reescribir la historia de la ética es repensarla desde el presente, a la luz de los problemas y de las circunstancias específicas que hoy nos agobian.

We can't always control what happens in our lives- things will go well, things will go poorly-but what we can control is our response to those events.

He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Beauty exists irrespective of financial circumstances.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Everyone has known what it's like to see their dreams crumble. But these women...have found something more stable to hang onto. They're not content and fulfilled because circumstances turned out the way they hoped, but because of their faith in a God who is above circumstance.

And when you and I talk about history we don't mean what actually happened, do we? The cosmic chaos of everywhere, all time? We mean the tidying up of this into books, the concentration of the benign historical eye upon years and places and persons. History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

As we contemplate Washington's words and place them in his historical circumstances, it occurs to us that a man so concerned for righteousness in his army, and for military chaplains to lead his men in seeking the blessings of heaven, just might have been a praying man himself.

Of course I enjoy this life! It's wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!

Of course I am happy here! It's wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!