Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. [Genesis 50:20]
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
It is a fact that you project what you are.
It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.