Quotes about circumstance

Andrew Solomon - The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

Dada Bhagwan -

Pure Soul and circumstances there are only these two but the disturbance of egoism does not allow it to be at peace.

Mark Twain - Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

It is easy to make plans in this world even a cat can do it and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same.

Steve Maraboli -

Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you're still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose.

Leo Babauta -

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

Robert Burns - Collected Poems of Robert Burns

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana -

At any given moment, your circumstances can change. You may not be where you want to be right now. You may not even be doing what you prefer to do. But, if you change your way of thinking and realize that you have all the opportunities available to you just like each one of us. You can begin to focus on what you want to achieve and make it happen

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

Allen Wheelis - How People Change

We must affirm freedom and responsibility without denying that we are the product of circumstance, and must affirm that we are the product of circumstance without denying that we have the freedom to transcend that causality to become something which could not even have been provisioned from the circumstances which shaped us.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

May you find the courage to rise above any circumstance.

H. Rider Haggard - She

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?

Sunday Adelaja -

Some things will go wrong for each of us, the most important thing is your attitude in that circumstance

Sunday Adelaja -

The power of the Lord changes all circumstances

Mervyn Peake -

The emotional, loving, moody child had small chance of developing into a happy woman. Had she as a girl been naturally joyus yet all that had befallen her must surely have driven away the bright birds, one by one, from her breast. As it was, made of more sombre clay, capable of deep happiness, but more easily drawn to the dark than the light, Fuchsia was even more open to the cruel winds of circumstance which appeared to have singled her out for particular punishment.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have “forever” repercussions.

Dada Bhagwan -

A circumstance is not easy to come by and when it does, there are causes behind it. Therefore I do those things which bring an end to all the causes.

Dada Bhagwan -

Charge’ means coming together of all the circumstances and ‘discharge’ means the circumstances get over.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Like the weather or bonds between lovers,transformations can never be predicted.All energy transmutes one day or another,in one way or another. Either in its form or composition. Or in its position or disposition.

Harrish Sairaman -

People change only under two circumstances, one is called Inspiration and the other Desperation!!!! Unfortunately, both give results!

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Whatever comes your way begets the gift of every circumstance.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Stop counting your losses and start counting your blessings. Only then will you discover that losses are always easier to point out and count than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber your losses, for they are truly immeasurable.

Dada Bhagwan -

Circumstances can change through worldly knowledge (ignorance of the self, the Soul) and also through (true) knowledge (realization of the self). With ignorance, circumstances will bring entanglements and with (true) knowledge, circumstances will bring solutions. (True) Knowledge itself changes circumstances. Is God likely to come down and do so?

Lailah Gifty Akita -

God change us in every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Don’t look at your circumstance. Be courageous!

Steve Maraboli -

Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Adapt to any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

You ought to the read stories of how people have endured worst situation. You will find the strength to survive life.

Andrea Cremer - The Inventor's Secret

We are all prisoners of circumstance at one point or another.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

You ought to endure eagerly every situation with hope.

Kamand Kojouri -

Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

There is hope in any circumstance. Be strong!

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

A prayer and positive affirmation are the keys for a divine intervention in any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita - On Eagles Wings:Rise

Without being push to the wall, we will have remained in our comfortable zone. But this circumstance challenges us to find the courage to move on.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

There exist bright sunny moment in any events of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

With positive mindset you can graciously overcome any circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

With patient persistence, you will conquer any situation.

Álvaro de Campos -

in exceptional circumstances — exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially those which are nothing in themselves and come to be everything in their results.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

If we find ourselves in unfamiliar circumstance, what do we do? We ought to keep calm and pray.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

You have the strength to survive any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Divine-encounter exist any sacred-situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

You can either change yourself or allow the circumstance to change you. The choice is yours.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

God is in control of every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

God controls every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Every circumstance is a channel of miracles.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

May you find grace to endure every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life’s circumstances?

Lauren Miller - Parallel

So you believe in fate,” I say.Dr. Mann pauses thoughtfully before answering. “I believe each of us was uniquely created for a specific purpose designed by the Creator, and that, because of that, there are certain things in our lives that we are destined by Him to do. The rest, I think, is soft clay: left entirely to the defining influences of choice, chance, and circumstance. And luck! Don’t forget luck.

Richie Norton - and Live without Regret

It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

I have no control over events. I can only be courageously to conquer every challenge.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

May you find the courage to be grateful for every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

May you have the courage to conquer any circumstance.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.

Dada Bhagwan -

Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves.

Dada Bhagwan -

There are so many things in this world. If we put it in short (succinctly), then what will remain? The ‘pure Soul’ and ‘circumstances’. Moreover, to disperse is the nature of circumstances. Therefore, the Pure Soul will not have to tell them to go away.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

With every circumstance, there is grace for change.

Dada Bhagwan -

Circumstances will continue to change. They will not adjust to you; you will have to adjust to them. Circumstances are without inner-intent and you are with inner-intent. To make the circumstances favorable is our job. Unfavorable circumstances are indeed favorable. One feels exhausted going up the stairs, and yet why does he climb them? There is the inner-intent that he will be able to go up; he will be able to take advantage of what is up there; that is why!

Dada Bhagwan -

It is the nature of the circumstances to disperse. If there is attachment with the circumstance, there will be abhorrence when they get dispersed.

Dada Bhagwan -

When many circumstances come together, one will get food to eat. When many circumstances come together, one gets to go hungry (one will not get food to eat). One goes hungry when many more circumstances come together. A greater number of circumstances are needed for an unfavorable situation, and less for favorable situation.

Dada Bhagwan -

Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief.

Dada Bhagwan -

God said to accept whatever circumstances that come along. Circumstance is a natural thing. In it, ‘Do this and don’t do that’- should not be there. Circumstances are a ‘scientific circumstantial evidence’ [‘Vyavasthit’]. You should ‘settle them with equanimity’.

Dada Bhagwan -

Moksha (Liberation) is to become free from gathering & dispersing of circumstances.

Anonymous -

The long arm of coincidence.

Benjamin Disraeli -

Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Thomas Haliburton -

Circumstances alter cases.

Walter Scott -

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Syrus -

The circumstances of others seem good to us while ours seem good to others.

Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

Robert Wesley Miller -

A hard lesson learned recently; when you are not making an income, you must surrender to some out comes.

Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays

Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.

Thomm Quackenbush - 2nd Edition: A Reference Handbook

They tell me how they are not scared to die, but they are terrified of the lives circumstance forces them to lead.

Tami B Harriott -

If you do not control your circumstance, you will be controlled by your circumstance. The choice is yours.

Unarine Ramaru -

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

O God guide my steps in every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Be grateful for every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

There is always a solution to any problem.Find opportunities in any circumstance. Never become a victim.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such stunning ingenuity that our faith becomes seamless.

Christina Baker Kline - A Piece of the World

Do our natures dictate the choices we make, I wonder, or do we choose to live a certain way because of circumstances beyond our control?

Moffat Machingura - Life Capsules

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.

Tracie Miles - Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World

I had been so focused on why we were suffering through all these adversities that I had neglected to think about who could get me through them or how God was going to mold our hardships to be for his glory.

Christopher McCandless -

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Don’t make your life complicated. Adapt to every circumstance.

Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Stop the pity party! Your sorrow is full and complete when you go through unfortunate circumstances and decide to mourn for life as a result of the unexpected.

Robert Burns - Collected Poems of Robert Burns

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley.An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations can never be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

It's normal for us to become unhappy for a while due to how circumstances in life treat us, but it is ungodly for us to be ungrateful for these circumstances that make us unhappy!

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

On no account should you entertain being a victim of your own circumstances. When unexpected failure occurs, you can turn it into success.

George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

Warren W. Wiersbe -

We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

God is in control in every circumstance.

Konstantin Stanislavsky -

Truth in art is truth n circumstances.

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and Damned

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

Will Advise - Nothing is here...

#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.

Sunday Adelaja -

Personal Responsibility is an act of being responsible for results and consequences of your decisions, actions and in-actions in a given situation or circumstance.

Emily Thorne -

Every human is born of collusion. We come into this world the result of a covenant. Sometimes made of love, Sometimes of circumstance. But almost always made in secret.

Anthony Liccione -

We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.

Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays

We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others.

Plutarch -

To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Cortney S. Warren - Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and circumstance to determine our life course.