Quotes About Circumstance

You are placed in landscape, you are placed in time. But, within that, there's a bit of room for manoeuvre. To some extent, you can be author of your own fate.

One often meets one's fate on the road one takes to avoid it.

Kusanagi had met plenty of good, admirable people who'd been turned into murderers by circumstance. There was something about them he always seemed to sense, an aura that they shared. Somehow, their transgression freed them from the confines of a mortal existence, allowing them to perceive the great truths of the universe. At the same time, it meant they had one foot in forbidden territory. They straddled the line between sanity and madness.

Whether you're disabled or not, issues of attitude are of paramount importance in finding your Element. A strong will to be yourself is an indomitable force. Without it, even a person in perfect physical shape is at a comparative disadvantage. In my experience, most people have to face internal obstacles of self-doubt and fear as much as any external obstacles of circumstance and opportunity.

lo que determina nuestra vida no es lo que nos pasa sino lo que hacemos con lo que sucede.

None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.

No matter the circumstance you can always improve. You can always start improving with yourself. You can always start improving today.

Fate will unwind as it must!

In one mingled soul reside All times and places. On a tide Of mist and azure air We journey toward that soul, through circumstance, Until at last we fully care and dare To make within ourselves divinity.

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate

True fear is a gift that signals us in the presence of danger; thus, it will be based upon something you perceive in your environment or your circumstance. Unwarranted fear or worry will always be based upon something in your imagination or your memory.

Sometimes you make choice in the Life, Sometime choices make you.

Siempre es sobre accidentes

Hugh kept circling us. A small smile curved his lips. He looked like a man who was enjoying himself. Snow, sunshine, brisk air, a fast horse . . . and impending slaughter. All the things a growing boy needs.

You can't just murder the saint of Houston without some pomp and circumstance.

It only seems like that, Jeanne. It all seems caused by this man or that, by one circumstance or another, but it's like in nature: after the calm comes the storm; it starts out slowly, reaches its peak, then it's over and other periods of calm, some longer, some shorter, come along. It's just been our bad luck to be born in a century full of storms, that's all. They'll die down.

Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities that do not torment normal people, only chronic nonconformists, many of whom end up as writers after having failed in other undertakings.

The long arm of coincidence.

The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.