We must affirm freedom and responsibility without denying that we are the product of circumstance, and must affirm that we are the product of circumstance without denying that we have the freedom to transcend that causality to become something which could not even have been provisioned from the circumstances which shaped us.
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May you find the courage to rise above any circumstance.
The power of the Lord changes all circumstances
Some things will go wrong for each of us, the most important thing is your attitude in that circumstance
Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?
Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.
Don__ look at your circumstance. Be courageous!
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
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 and with (true) knowledge, circumstances will bring solutions. (True) Knowledge itself changes circumstances. Is God likely to come down and do so?
Whatever comes your way begets the gift of every circumstance.
People change only under two circumstances, one is called Inspiration and the other Desperation!!!! Unfortunately, both give results!
The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.
Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.
The circumstances of others seem good to us while ours seem good to others.
Circumstances alter cases.
The long arm of coincidence.
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.