Quotes About Circumstance

Beyond that, I want them to see that there is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.

T]here is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.

Life is good. It is precious. It is a great blessing. Even on its worst days. And in its deepest valleys you must remember the view from its highest mountains. You must not forget that happiness is a matter of perspective, not circumstance.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

Make decisions based on your worth, not your circumstance!

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

They say that one chooses one's friends, but one's relations are thrust upon one.

Everything in life is a matter of luck. If luck is with you, people will know where you live.

I look back now with amazement at the small accidents that put certain books before me.

He did not live in a shrunken world, but knew of no less ample circumstance than did Homer himself. Perhaps the Gaelic people shall by his like bring back again the ancient simplicity and amplitude of imagination. What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Chances are where you find them

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

Chance favours the prepared mind.

Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

He was struck by how lives diverge and by how powerless each of us is up against the force of circumstance. And where does God figure in this? Why does He set one person down in Nazi-occupied

You can be sunk low or as a skunk and still have a joy in your heart. Joy lives like one of those spinning things---a gyroscope in your heart. It doesn't seem to have any connection to circumstance, good or bad.

Strano, in qualche modo si ha sempre l'impressione di essere fortunati, che una qualche circostanza, magari infinitesima, ci trattenga sull'orlo della disperazione e ci conceda di vivere.

Is it Chance, mere circumstance That man eats cow eats grass eats soil and then man dies, and when he lies to the soil he does return?