Quotes on Circumstances

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

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

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features which nature distributes among many individuals. From this combination, ingeniously composed, results that happy imitation by virtue of which the artist earns the title of inventor and not of servile copyist.

You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.

When you allow circumstances beyond your control to determine your attitude and actions, you risk plunging into a downward spiral of hasty decisions and faulty judgments, to overreacting, giving up too soon, and missing those opportunities that always - always - appear just when you think life will never get better.

The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

By choosing to hang on to your corner of freedom in even the worst situations, you can process your world with the energy of appreciation and beauty, and create an opportunity to transcend your circumstances.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; _x000D_ Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.