Life Circumstances Quotes

The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Nobody wants a bad relationship with their parents, but at the same time we are all dealt a hand in this life and it's all about what you do with that.

Vow to seek a Calm Inner Response to the Circumstances of your Life

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.

Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.

The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry. From that, so much else followed: where they would live, in what sort of conditions, whether they would be happy or sad or, so often, a bit of both. There were roles and there were rules.

The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

I never asked to be born in the first place.

The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers.