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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life read more
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around read more
Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise.
You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived read more
No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there read more
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.