A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances.

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.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

Beauty exists irrespective of financial circumstances.

The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don’t have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.

No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one’s attitude towards life.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

I was tormented by my desire for a woman … I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.

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

There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.

Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility… Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances.

As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under any circumstances. Their fibers are radioactive, and even the Queen’s selfies to the pool boy get logged.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy … is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.