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What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.
I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.
I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.
I'm just trying to do my best in the circumstances and am very happy for everyone else to do the same so I don't cultivate enemies.
Ultimately, if circumstances line-up in a way that makes it possible for Fugazi to play and the desire was there, we would do that.
You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.
Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith.
It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.
Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.
External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
I am tremendously inspired by many women around the world who work under dire circumstances to make a difference for their families.
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.
You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Let no Jew, regardless of their circumstances, feel that he or she cannot experience that unique moment of peace when Shabbat begins.
I never want to change. I get nervous about that... people thinking that I've changed just because the circumstances of my life have.
Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.
President Donald Trump has said, he would be honored to meet Kim Jong-un under the right circumstances. What are those circumstances?
Love isn't a switch you can turn on and off. You just can't get rid of it, regardless of the circumstances, if you truly love someone.
If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.
One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.
Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.
The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do.
Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.
If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
No matter the circumstances, teachers show up each day ready to give their students every opportunity possible, and they never give up.
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.
Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.
To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]