Circumstances Quotes - Page 10

• Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Life, Self, Games

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• Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Utterance, Spirit

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Heart, Weather, People

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2011). “Prayer, Praise & Promises: A Daily Walk Through the Psalms”, p.30, Baker Books

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• It is important to receive God's arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God's arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.

  Watchman Nee

  Opportunity, Discipline, Suffering

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• Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Men, Identity, Unbroken

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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• Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Mind, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.24, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

  Mike Nichols

  Real, Psychology, Theatre

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• I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be.

  Judi Dench

  Design, Theatre, Want

  "Judi Dench Press Conference at the 2004 Taormina BNL Filmfest". www.filmscouts.com. 2004.

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• Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be a source of happiness and a cheerfulness to me during life and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.

  John Herschel

  Book, Reading, World

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Art, Excellence, Trying

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• Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do

  Paul Meyer

  Determination, Persistence, Thinking

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• Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

  Herodotus

  Men, Chance

  "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 49, c. 440 BC.

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• Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client. A tension - sometimes constructive, other times uncomfortable - has been prevalent in the field between one impulse toward structure and recognition and another toward freedom and flexibility to be responsive to individual circumstances

  Bob Benson

  Healing, Heart, Technique

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• No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Attitude, Greatness, Men

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• We all travel different roads to our ultimate destinations. For some of us the path is rockier than for others. But no one reaches the end without feeling some form of adversity. So rather than fight it, why not accept it as the way of life? Why not detach yourself from the outcomes and simply experience every circumstance that enters your life to the fullest?

  Robin Sharma

  Adversity, Fighting, Feelings

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• Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

  Walker Percy

  Dog, Sleep, Men

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical... the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.

  Max Lucado

  Hope, Opportunity, People

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.

  Billy Graham

  Change, Fashion, Men

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• Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

  Brené Brown

  Empathy, Events, Stories

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• He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive . . .

  James Agee

  Track, Insanity, Mind

  James Agee (1969). “Agee on film: Reviews and comments”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.

  Wally Amos

  Graduation, Goal, Want

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• In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the ostensible purpose of achieving disarmament. Rather, the United States would respect the Charter of the UN and would strive to achieve disarmament and settle the differences among nations through peaceful diplomatic means.

  David Cortright

  Military, Mean, Government

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• I prefer law to war under all circumstances.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  War, Law

  "Crimes Against Humanity Benjamin Ferencz Interview". Interview with Katy Clark, ratical.org. September 19, 2001.

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• It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's time for us to look at the practices of corporations and holding them accountable for violations of law which often go unnoticed because there is very little regulation.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Rights, Law, Practice

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• There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Opportunity, People

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