Quotes About Circumstance

He met with an incident." "You mean an accident." "Oh no, my Lord. There was nothing accidental about it.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

I have been enormously impressed by the role that pure chance plays in determining our life history. I was reminded of some famous lines of Robert Frost: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both I took the one less travled by, And that has made all the difference. As I recalled my own experience and development, I was impressed by the series of lucky accidents that determined the road I traveled. > From Lives of the Laureates pg.67

Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.

She is happy, Kate thought. Even in her circumstance, she is happy. Kate almost envied the wounded woman that contentment. Was that what suffering did? she wondered. Place you in such pain that with its lessening, contentment came more easily. (p. 180)

Blind acceptance of what you believe to be the dictates of fate and circumstance is dangerous.

Chances are where you find them

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

Our fate like the fate of all species, is determined by chance, by circumstance, and by grace.

We don't get into mischief," said Mary indignantly. "It sort of happens to us, or around us, or in our general vicinity.

What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.

What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my shadow pinned against a sweating wall, that place among the rocks--is it a cave, or winding path? The edge is what I have.

Sometimes I think you do the things you think are best at the time for what you need to take care of, and then just one thing leads to another thing. And one day you're there going, 'How did I get here? It wasn't my ultimate plan, but I'm here.'

He was like this when I got here?' That's you alibi?

There was no best about any of this. There was only what they could do at any given moment.

The crush of it. So this is it. Love swallowed by mistake or circumstance. Romance and the moon conspired to make a summer fool of me.

We all die, you know. And the life you have or don't have is not always determined by you.

We are where we are.

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog "What does that mean?" "I have no idea," said the Dog

Every experience that you have and will have upon the Earth encourages the alignment of your personality with your soul. Every circumstance and situation gives you the opportunity to choose this path, to allow your soul to shine through you, to bring into the physical world through you its unending and unfathomable reverence for and love of Life.

It's none of your nobility impelled me on my way. It's guilt and hate, and love and fear; these roused me forth each day. Nor had I any righteousness, no heaven-sent commission; A man's the sum of circumstance, of training, times, position.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it." That's

Nothing splendid is ever achieved except by those who believe something inside of them is greater than circumstance

With a boulder on my shoulder Feeling kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round.