This too shall pass.
Showing posts with label circumstances. Show all posts
Showing posts with label circumstances. Show all posts
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Post #3148
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
—Chinese Proverb
—Chinese Proverb
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Sunday, September 13, 2020
Sunday, April 05, 2020
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Post #2987
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
—William Makepeace Thackeray
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Post #2962
To give and to lose, is nothing ; but to lose and to give still, is the part of a great mind.
—Seneca
—Seneca
Thursday, August 01, 2019
Monday, March 13, 2017
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Post #2182
Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Monday, February 01, 2016
Post #2001
Misfortune does not always wait on vice; nor is success the constant guest of virtue.
—William Havard
—William Havard
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Post #1943
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
—David Hume
—David Hume
Wednesday, July 08, 2015
Post #1853
If you cannot frame your circumstances in accordance with your wishes, frame your will into harmony with your circumstances.
—Epictetus
—Epictetus
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Post #1669
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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.
—George Bernard Shaw
—George Bernard Shaw
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Post #186
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
—Samuel Lover
—Samuel Lover
Sunday, March 14, 2010
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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