Circumstances Quotes Help Illustrate The Diversity In Life

Circumstances Quotes

What follows are various circumstances quotes to help lighten the mode but also to offer insight and encouragement.

There are many quotes on being circumstantial and quotes about circumstances available elsewhere. Here I hope these circumstances quotations help you in your quest to boost your life and/or provide a few moments of wisdom and insight into life.

I hope you enjoy these circumstances sayings and quotes and benefit from them.

Circumstances Quotations

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. Cyrus Ching

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" Sydney J. Harris

The bitterest misfortune can be covered up with a smile. Yiddish folk saying

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember. Virgil

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Fred Allen

This, too, shall pass. William Shakespeare

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. Mother Maribel

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. Zsa Zsa Gabor

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. Robert Frost

A friend costs nothing. An enemy you must pay for. Yiddish folk saying

Money is relative … the more money that rolls in the more the relatives. Anonymous

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. John Howard Payne

The best thing to spend on your children is your time. Louise Hart

If you are too busy to enjoy life, you're too busy. Jeff Davidson

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. Oscar Wilde

One can learn from experience, but one cannot be taught by it. Adam Phillips

Take the tone of the company you are in. Lord Chesterfield

The chief cause of stress is reality. Lily Tomlin

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moore

What resembles nothing does not exist. Paul Valery

I hope you enjoyed these 'circumstances' quotes, Martin

Circumstances quotes from my notebooks:

The following are taken from my notebooks. They will I hope complement the quotations given above as well as reveal a little more about my life and my thinking about life. They are all related to the theme of circumstance quotes.

Some are idle thoughts and comments on life and the life we lead. Others could one day be developed further into articles or reports. I feel that they are related to the 'circumstances quotes' theme.

Circumstances quotes - from my notebooks

Don't complain, put your effort into the real gain of accomplishing your task and moving on.

Take care!

Your father/mother would be proud.

Everything that has happened, bad behaviour included, has taught me how to and how not to - a real lesson.

Are you camouflaged or do you stick out like a sore thumb? Keeping your head down or publicising yourself to the maze? Sometimes the quiet, get on with it approach works best, other times be flexible. Learn to adapt.

The world could do with a few more people who knew what they were doing, where they were going. There is enough craziness around not to be augmented by us moving helter skelter first this direction and then that, achieving little but getting thoroughly confused and often demotivated while we are doing it.

Enter a smelly room, soon it becomes unsmelly - in that you are no longer aware of the odor that first hit you on entering. Similarly when you encounter troubles your first awareness can soon be hidden and you do not realize the trouble you are now in, whatever its nature.

We cannot clock off in life. that day will come we know not when. Life has to be experienced between now and then. Now this moment is the one of importance. We can learn from the past, and experience life in the now - the present - and have aspirations and ambitions for the future.

He was always so strange, one always so different. Does that make him bad or wicked? It did set him out from the crowd. Given the right circumstances we could be that 'stranger'. Give him a break.

Stimulation. We have our senses, our five senses. We need stimulation, almost as much as we need oxygen and food. Stimulation reminds us what we have, who we are. As well as prompting us to action. It can also remind us that there is an inner life to be experienced and savored as well.

Choice. We love choice and yet too much choice is a 21st Century burden. Two many options can drive you bananas. Do we have the method of choice, our method of choice, buttoned down? Do we outwardly choose so many things on impulse, and yet neglect the many choices we have regarding our inner self, our inner world (and what is really important)?

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Martin