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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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• 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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• Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Marriage, Couple, Unhappy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.32

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• You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Gratitude, Attitude, Worry

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• The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

  William James

  Gratitude, Mind, Encounters

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• Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress.
  Thinking, negative thinking causes stress.
  The real cause of all problems lie in our thoughts, not in things or circumstances.
  You and I possess the power to change our thoughts.
  It is our greatest power - the power to choose.
  If you are feeling stressful, choose to relax.
  Look at your problems as a stranger might then do something about them - NOW!

  Bob Proctor

  Jobs, Real, Stress

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 08, 2012

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• True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Mean, Trying

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• Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize that result.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Creating, Want, Realizing

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• Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

  Mike Leigh

  Generosity, Choices, Luck

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 23, 2008.

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• While a little faith may bring your souls to heaven, a lot of faith--clinging to God despite your circumstances--will bring heaven to your soul

  Skip Heitzig

  Heaven, Soul, May

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• Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.

  Bill Moyers

  Commitment, Justice, Charity

  Jim Wallis, Bill Moyers (2001). “Faith Works: How Faith-based Organizations are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America”, p.18, Council Oak Books

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• Every day, or at least twice a week, take a few minutes and focus on seeing yourself in joy. Feel yourself in joy. Imagine only joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it. As you do this the Universe will move all people, circumstances, and events to bring you joy, joy and more joy.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Moving, People, Focus

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.

  Adrian Rogers

  Believe, Spite, Consequence

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• Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today.

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Giving, Choices

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• It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by were we in their circumstances; to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God. These are some of the laws of nature which every man in the world is bound to observe, and which whoever violates exposes himself to the resentment of mankind, the lashes of his own conscience, and the judgment of Heaven. This plainly shows that the highest state of liberty subjects us to the law of nature and the government of God.

  Samuel West

  Men, Law, Heaven

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• Our intentions attract the elements and forces, the events, the situation, the circumstances and the relationships necessary to fulfill the intended outcome. We don't need to become involved in the details-in fact, trying too hard may backfire. Let the non-local intelligence synchronize the actions of the universe to fulfill your intentions for you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Law Of Attraction, Trying, Events

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.111, Harmony

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• The bottom line is pray. If you’re tired, sick, emotionally overwhelmed—pray. If you’re on cloud nine and life seems perfect—pray. If you lack direction—pray. If you doubt that prayer makes any difference—pray. If the circumstances of your life are out of your control—pray. If the circumstances of your life seem well within you’re your control—pray even harder. Whatever you do—pray.

  Tony Evans

  Life, Christian, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Dec 06, 2013

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• Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  May, Matter, Lord

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• One simple change - seeking and finding peace within - could, if it were undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict and prevent injustice. World peace is a personal thing. What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  War, Simple, World

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 14, 2014

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• I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Doe, Association

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.76, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Light, Darkness, World

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• I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Journey, Cost

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from May 29, 2013

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• We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

  Roger Ebert

  Joy, Trying, World

  "Life Itself: A Memoir". Book by Roger Ebert, September 2011.

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