Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there well or poorly.
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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.
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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.
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Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
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Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances the right to choose one's own way.
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The last of the human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.
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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.
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What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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There are no extraordinary men.. Just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
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Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
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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.
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
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The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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