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“The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.”

Soul Artist Greatness Circumstances Office Supreme Chosen Artistic Subtle Defining Mesh

Book:The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .”

Men Age Decision Circumstances Offers Shapes Resources Satisfied Chosen Alternatives Hats

Author:George Eliot

“Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.”

Firsts Roles Particular Circumstances Yeah Chosen Command Flight

Author:Neil Armstrong

“God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.”

Way Has Beens Seems Worry One Thing Possibility Circumstances Accounts Chosen Factors Upset Delightful Calculations Without God Calculating Chosen By God

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception is only such work as directly serves your vices.”

Remember Community Circumstances Battle Vices Chosen Exception Asceticism

Book:Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

Source: Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

“Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now.”

Kind Circumstances Determine Chosen

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"”

Self Feelings Action Values Asks Circumstances Mood Chosen Proactive

Author:Stephen Covey

“We have each chosen the circumstances of our births in order to carry out our soul's purposes. And these purposes can't always be known to our intellects. Nothing happens randomly. And at the same time, we have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.”

Soul Happens Age Purpose Order Ability Powerful Known Birth Circumstances Healthy Intellect Things Happen Chosen

Author:Christiane Northrup

“It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.”

Men Doe Moments Names Records Circumstances Chosen Combination Great Men Admiration Unusual Posterity Chosen One

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”

Men Past Given Brain Generations Circumstances Please Tradition Chosen Nightmare Making History

Author:Karl Marx