I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof.
Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.
Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us. . . Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.
It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the director (who in a new work is always in dialogue with the playwright) an unlimited amount of questions.
Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.
Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper. Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity, deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?
Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.
Whatever circumstance it is, if you always do your best, then you can't beat yourself up, basically.
I've always loved the pomp and circumstance of dressing up; the pagenatry and all of the glamour of Hollywood.
I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.
Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing
You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.
The people's instincts are still right. You see them come to the rescue of someone-a child who falls down a well-hundreds of people rush to help, and labor and equipment are volunteered without any thought of who's going to pay for it. This is a basic feeling in Americans. They don't stand back in such a circumstance and ask what the government's going to do about it.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.
…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?
I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.
My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.
It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.