“ The emotional, loving, moody child had small chance of developing into a happy woman. Had she as a girl been naturally joyus yet all that had befallen her must surely have driven away the bright birds… Mervyn Peake
“ We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have c… Warren W. Wiersbe
“ Circumstances can change through worldly knowledge (ignorance of the self, the Soul) and also through (true) knowledge (realization of the self). With ignorance, circumstances will bring entanglements… Dada Bhagwan
“ Charge’ means coming together of all the circumstances and ‘discharge’ means the circumstances get over. Dada Bhagwan
“ Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live. Michel de Montaigne
“ When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and circumstance to determine our life course. Cortney S. Warren
“ Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events. Richard Rohr
“ What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ #Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win. Will Advise
“ They tell me how they are not scared to die, but they are terrified of the lives circumstance forces them to lead. Thomm Quackenbush
“ The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever. Moffat Machingura
“ Do our natures dictate the choices we make, I wonder, or do we choose to live a certain way because of circumstances beyond our control? Christina Baker Kline
“ We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others. Michel de Montaigne
“ I had been so focused on why we were suffering through all these adversities that I had neglected to think about who could get me through them or how God was going to mold our hardships to be for his… Tracie Miles
“ The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet. Rohinton Mistry
