Circumstances Quote by Anwar Sadat

“With this new empathetic understanding of the context, we will find that we can imagine ourselves, in similar circumstances, feeling the same.”

— Karen Armstrong

Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral…

— Aristotle

Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn,…

— Emma Goldman

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

— Bob Dylan

Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

— David Platt

America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster…

— Alison Lurie

A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or her own…

— Norman Vincent Peale

“The flat is small, with only a sliver of ocean view from the bedroom window, but I pay for it myself—not from the family…

— Emma Chase

The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately inadequate. And…

— Kenneth Keniston

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except…

— Carl Rogers

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from…

— Stanislaw Ulam