Quotes About Circumstances

Accept your existing conditions, once you accept what circumstances you are; you can begin to see what's possible for you in life.

I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth is irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

she was also an extremely poor one, and, as he himself had lost his fortune, they went scarcely anywhere, and were the sort of people who were apt to be overlooked except on great occasions, when they had the good fortune to bury or marry a relative.

No hay nadie, por muy virtuoso que sea, que por causa de la complejidad de las circunstancias, no pueda llegar algún día a vivir en familiaridad con el vicio que más rigurosamente condena.

I tried to speak to Mamma but my voice broke, and, bursting into tears, I stayed for a long time, my head on her shoulder, crying, tasting, accepting, relishing my grief, now that I knew that it had departed from my life, as we like to exalt ourselves by forming virtuous plans which circumstances do not permit us to put into execution.

In addition, the Supreme Court has explained that children have rights independent of their parents: Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow that they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves.111

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

We have the freedom to decide for ourselves how circumstances affect us and can choose to interpret events so that they have a meaning for us. In this way, even suffering can become endurable if it can be shown to be meaningful.

It is up to each of us to take responsibility for controlling the way we percieve and react to the world, and learn to adjust to changing circumstances.

While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.

When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878

This is one reason that improving our external circumstances may not always be enough to alleviate our longstanding anxieties or to make us feel more empowered; to the extent that the unconscious is committed to preserving the past—even when this past is not what we would have chosen—in an unchanging form, it can prevent our inner lives from catching up with modifications of our external conditions.

Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it." It's part of a longer passage, which reads:

Things happen to us all the time. You don't have much choice about that. But where we do have choice is in what we do with what happens.

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

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

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

I Believe That Our Background And Circumstances May Have Influenced Who We Are, But We Are Responsible For Who We Become..

Happiness has nothing to do with your life's circumstances,its based on your ability to accept the things you are experiencing.

You control the ultimate result of where you will end up, what you may become and how successful you may be. No matter what our current circumstances are, always maintain a strong belief in your abilities to succeed and you will accomplish anything that you set out for.

Strength of character lies in performing the drama of life with courage and confidence, practicing self-reflection and self-control under any circumstances.