Quotes About Circumstance

There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.

The social displacements that occur as consequences of variations in the value of money result solely from the circumstance that this assumption never holds good. In the chapter dealing with the determinants of the objective exchange-value of money it was shown that variations in the value of money always start from a given point and gradually spread out from this point through the whole community.

Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.

Whether or not you believe in fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance?

Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault—that if you'd tried better, or worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance?

Life was a series of ifs—a very different outcome if you'd only played the lottery last night; if you had picked a different college; if you had invested in stocks instead of bonds; if you had not been taking your kindergartner to his first day of school the morning of 9/11.

When most people pray, they act like they have no power or responsibility. But in ho'oponopono, you are totally responsible. The "prayer" is to ask for forgiveness for whatever is in you that caused the outer circumstance. The prayer is a reconnecting to the Divine. The rest is trusting the Divine to heal you. As you heal, so does the outer. Everything, without exception, is inside you.

The same thing that's happened

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

There is no such thing as no chance.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

Who can control his fate?

Fate is nonawareness.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

Fate is a great accident.

You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.

You need to be lucky in life, but it's also what you do with your luck.

I do not like to talk about luck.