#circumstance

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. ↗

— Nadia Sahari

#circumstances #courage #freedom-of-choice #hope #inspire

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley. ↗

— Robert Burns

#fate #life #planning #plans #life

There is no easy way out of our circumstances...Sometimes you stick it out even when you want to give up because you know that on the other side is either a better situation or a better you." -Watercrossing (Phantom Island Book 3) ↗

— Krissi Dallas

#choices #circumstances #giving-up #life

Just say it: I'm angry and no one will like me. God: No, I will not say that. But don't you think we ached for you to find a love you could share your whole life with? I used your teachers to encourage you creatively when the church could not... I worked with whatever I got my hands on. Can you see that? ↗

— Susan E. Isaacs

#circumstances #god #life #love #perspective

The second you think a situation is hopeless, it suddenly loses all meaning. A situation is just a case, condition, or state of affairs. It only becomes hopeless when you need to define an explanation. ↗

— Benson Bruno

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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance. ↗

— Joan Allen

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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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