Quotes About Circumstance

Everyone gets an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to them.

Everyone gets an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to them.

There is no such thing as luck. If you think you're lucky and that'll carry you through, you're living on borrowed time.

If that she-bear had eaten the baby it found o n the mountaintop instead of nursing it, how different the world would now have been

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

Your faith requires your action to back it up. Choose to see what part you must participate in to see your circumstance improve and personally grow and appreciate the victory because of it.

So doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? You purchase a ticket when you're born. And it's all just random whether you get a good ticket or a bad ticket. It's all just luck.

The truth is that this was something over which I had no control and the question is not why but what. What am I going to do with this? What am I going to make of it?

A flower has no choice in where it is planted, but does have a choice in the direction it grows.

... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

There's no such thing as probability," she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.

if you cannot change your situation, then you have no choice. You can only change how you think about it.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

But their meeting at the day of judgment will be exceeding diverse, in its manner and circumstance, from any such meetings and interviews as they have one with another in the present state.

How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.

What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise

It is always in a time when one's attention is at the sharpest strain, when innumerable details are separately and clearly grasped by the mind, and, in a word, when the external circumstance of life is most real to us that the comic contrast between ourselves and the greatness outside us can best be appreciated.

It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.

We make our own fortunes and we call them fate.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

We make our fortunes and call them fate.

We make our own fortunes, and call them fate.