Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror."
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Circumstances
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Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
Catherine the Great
Empress
"In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."
William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me."
Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice."
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"We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves."
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"Circumstances should never alter principles!"
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"Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances."
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"You are bigger than your circumstances."
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"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."
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"The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing."
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"To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies."
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"If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself."
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"What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?"
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"You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything."
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"Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing."
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"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself."
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"It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation."
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"Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves."
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"It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances."
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"You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends."
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"Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances"
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"Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them."
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"Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!"
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"Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition."
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