Contentment. . . has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.
A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. -.
Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.
Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however trivial or mean, are no measure of its power. In the present instance the stage is a scrubbed gun deck, and one of the external provocations a man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.
I prefer law to war under all circumstances.
Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.
You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your circumstances!
It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.
I was tormented by my desire for a woman. . . I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.
This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
Never, under any conditions allow circumstances to determine your reality.
While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die
Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.
The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.