The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. — John Updike Copy Share Image
What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances. — Leigh Brackett Copy Share Image
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed, — Jerry Moran Copy Share Image
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but… — Thomas J. Watson Copy Share Image
I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
You have a divine right to choose whom you will play with and under what circumstances. By eliminating any energy drag, the… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
“One simple thing to do and destroy the spirit of self-sabotage is to admire the beauty hidden in ugly circumstances.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake,… — Chris Bauer Copy Share Image
Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can't catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people,… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Circumstances will continue to change. They will not adjust to you; you will have to adjust to them. Circumstances do not have… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Life is about committing ourselves on a daily basis to the best in us. Freedom is a state of mind. Freedom is… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition… — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
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