Quotes About Circumstances

Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration to all.

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.

There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not. So there I was.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind, it is really to help, that is true solidarity.

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.

Socialism really works under some circumstances. Karl Marx just had the wrong species.

Like most other mammals, human beings display a behavioral scale, a spectrum of responses that appear or disappear according to particular circumstances.

Divorce or separation if that happens for whatever reasons and circumstances; it breaks not only your life; it also breaks children's life. Consequently, children suffer from grave psychological damage and feel the deprivation of love; in that situation; certainly, parents or partners are accountable for such a crime since they prefer their happiness, not children's feelings.

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.

A great man is not made simply by innate ability. Circumstances must give him the opportunity. These circumstances are often the malevolent conditions that surround a man and work on his character, almost as if they were trying to torture him. When his enemies have taken every form possible, both seen and unseen, and ally themselves to confront him with every hardship imaginable, he encounters the real test of greatness.

We may not be able to control life's circumstances, but we always have a choice about how we use our minds to respond to them.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy . . . is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them." —Ral ph Waldo Emerson