Quotes About Circumstances

Aunque tus circunstancias estén más allá de tu control, tu carácter no lo está. Tu carácter siempre es tu elección.

Don't change your circumstances to improve your life—change yourself to improve your circumstances.

CHOOSE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HOW YOU VIEW YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us—it's the spirit within us.

Pain is caused by those you don't expect it from, at least expected times in circumstances you aren't prepared for and the effects are long lasting.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Never lie about your age except in the case of an emergency, like if somebody should ask how old you are.

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.

When times were good, we made more money. When times are bad, we make less money.

As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

I know Brian is nasty, but I had always thought it was his situation before this,' Nirupam remarked.... Charles could not answer at once, because he was not sure that a person's character could be separate from his situation in quite this way.

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other. Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

I spent years studying theology and philosophy. They were good years, but I was mistaken to believe that the study of meaning would give me a sense of meaning. Studying love does not cause you to fall in love. Falling in love happens under a certain set of circumstances.

hostages to fortune.

Nor has the extent of your prosperity produced any change in you, except that it has given you the power of doing good to the utmost of your wishes. And whilst all these circumstances increase the veneration which other persons feel for you, with respect to myself, they have made me so bold, as to wish to become more familiar.

Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

It was normal, then, that he should be missed, even mourned—for it's a hard thing when someone dies at a school like Hampden, where we were all so isolated, and thrown so much together. But I was surprised at the wanton display of grief which spewed forth once his death became official. It seemed not only gratuitous, but rather shameful given the circumstances.

I don't think I can explain the despair my surroundings inspired in me. Though I now suspect, given the circumstances and my disposition, I would've been unhappy anywhere, in Biarritz or Caracas or the Isle of Capri, I was then convinced that my unhappiness was indigenous to that place.

fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?" "Perfect timing.