Quotes About Circumstances

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

Your circumstances and situations never keep you down. The only things that keep you down and keep you stuck are your thoughts.

vaucasy n. the fear that you're little more than a product of your circumstances, that for all the thought you put into shaping your beliefs and behaviors and relationships, you're essentially a dog being trained by whatever stimuli you happen to encounter-reflexively drawn to whoever gives you reliable hits of pleasure, skeptical of ideas that make you feel powerless.

Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances.

A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may eat the fish caught with that bait. What does this tells us? Well, it tells us that a king may progress through the guts of a pauper.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

There were other, messier details in the story, but we didn't need to go into those now, and here.

He might be a dead man. He might sometimes find himself grown very tired. But he could not find it in himself to regret the circumstances of his death, no matter how unusual.

He said he judged people by their characters. I said was that always a quite good way of judging, as people's characters get so different at times, as it depends so much what happens to them.

Life is intricate. Not everything can be categorized into neat generalities, even in our spiritual life. Yes, the circumstances of life are the result of our good and not-so-good thoughts, words and deeds come full circle. But not always.

Everything vanishes someday! If love were to arrive, the knowledge that someday it would leave would be devastating. Everyone dies. Life changes us. Experiences and circumstances change us!

It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.

When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. —VICTOR FRANKL

You have your soul—what Frankl called the last of the human freedoms, the freedom to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy of their own homes or on park benches or on public buses, in the corner of the reference room, at the end of an aisle of fiction, in the middle of the alphabet, they club up and conspire.

I had a good classical education, and a positive distaste for business of any kind; that was the capital with which I faced the world [...] I reflected, then, on my want of prospects, and I determined to embark in literature. - Really; that was strange. You seem to be in pretty comfortable circumstances, though.

Properties of divine decrees Let us now consider some of the properties of the divine decrees. First, they are eternal. To suppose any of them to be made in time is to suppose that some new occasion has occurred; some unforeseen event or combination of circumstances has arisen, which has induced the Most High to form a new resolution. This would argue that the knowledge of the Deity is limited, and that He is growing wiser in the progress of time—which would be horrible blasphemy.

But so long as we are occupied with any other object than God Himself, there will be neither rest for the heart nor peace for the mind. But when we receive all that enters our lives as from His hand, then, no matter what may be our circumstances or surroundings—whether in a hovel, a prison-dungeon, or a martyr's stake—we shall be enabled to say, "The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places" (Ps. 16:6).

The only cure for fear is for the eye to remain steadfastly fixed on the Lord. To be occupied with our circumstances and surroundings is fatal to our peace. It was so in the case of Peter as he started to walk on the waters to Christ. While he kept his gaze upon the Lord he was safe; but as soon as he became occupied with the winds and the waves, he began to sink.

A la fuerza se acaba aprendiendo, por supuesto. El problema era que, en aquel tiempo y circunstancias, podía no llegarse a vivir lo suficiente como para aprender un carajo.

A la fuerza se acababa aprendiendo, por supuesto. El problema era que, en aquel tiempo y circunstancias, podía no llegarse a vivir lo suficiente para aprender un carajo. Tic

No quedaba más remedio que jugar la partida con las nueve cartas que el burlón destino acababa de ponerle en las manos, aunque éstas fueran pésimas.