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“All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Certain Levels Results Our Lives Conditions Circumstances Responsible

Author:Albert Einstein

“The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.”

Ifs Happens Desire Given Pleasure Events Circumstances Extremes Anticipation

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any circumstances attempt to alleviate this situation by developing an interesting personality. An interesting personality, is, in an adult, insufferable. In a teenager it is frequently punishable by law.”

Ifs Wells Law Interesting Situation Personality Circumstances Adults Developing Teenager Adolescence Unattractive Alleviate Insufferable Interesting Personalities

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down.”

Ifs Writing Used Humanity Sun Fate Car Circumstances Inevitable Los Angeles Parallels Sun Set Used Car Inevitable Fate

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.”

“If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.”

Ifs May Order Silence Higher Circumstances Justify Reserves Our Thoughts Prudence Decorum

Book:Reflections on the French Revolution

Source: Reflections on the French Revolution

“The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.”

Ifs World Turns Circumstances Organization Permit Reformers

Book:The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of being. In other words, we attract experiences that are consistent with our beliefs. If we believe that there is plenty of love in the world and we are worthy of giving and receiving that love, we will attract a different quality of relationships than someone who believes in scarcity or feels unworthy of happiness.”

Source: The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction

“I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.”

“Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.”

“Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.”

Ifs Art Circumstances

Book:The White Shield

Source: The White Shield

“you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow hatred to take root, it would flourish and spread during your years in the camps, driving out everything else, and ultimately corrode and warp your soul. You will no longer be yourself, your identity will be destroyed, all that will remain will be a hysterical, maddened and bedevilled husk of the human being that once was.”

Ifs Years Humans Soul Hate Human Beings Identity Circumstances Roots Hatred Prison Spread Driving Destroyed Your Soul Being Yourself Camps Hysterical Warp

Author:Irina Ratushinskaya

“As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.”

“If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation”

Ifs Should Long Might Genius Circumstances Prepared Preparation Unexpected Entering Undertakings Foreseen

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.”

Ifs Individual Acting Compassion Moral Alive Circumstances Contrary Pity Selfishness

Author:African Spir

“If God isn't giving you money, He is giving you a way to make money All your circumstances are to empower you to increase your sense of wonder in God The more difficult the circumstance, the more brilliant the sense of wonder would be”

Ifs Way Giving Would Be Difficult Wonder Circumstances Increase Brilliant Making Money Empowering Sense Of Wonder

Author:Graham Cooke

“Your identity is being formed whether you understand it or not, whether you are cooperating or not. Something is being formed all the time, either through your response or your non-response. All your circumstances are to establish something. If you don't respond to them properly, then you establish something that you don't really want to be known for.”

Ifs Want Known Identity Circumstances Response Cooperating Responsiveness

Author:Graham Cooke

“Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to be wondered at if the public is very nearly as slow in the uptake.”

People Ifs Lasts Force Realizing Circumstances Revolutionary

Author:Constant Lambert

“Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that.”

Ifs Work Responsibility Accepting Position Hard Work Circumstances Benefits Harder Extras Bucks Work Harder Peanuts

Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.”

Ifs Men Common Consciousness Circumstances Equal Office Judgment Conscious Importance Regard Posts Indifferent Conqueror Clerks Disservice Post Office

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“The way in which I know Christianity is true is first and foremost is the basis of the witness of the Holy Spirit in my heart. And this gives me self-authenticating means of knowing Christianity is true wholly apart from the evidence. And therefore, even if in some historically contingent circumstances the evidence that I have available to me should turn against Christianity, I do not think that controverts the witness of the Holy Spirit.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Giving Should Firsts Heart Mean Self Spirit Turns Christianity Knowing My Heart Circumstances Holy Evidence Bases Give Me Available Witness Holy Spirit

Author:William Lane Craig

“The writing of Topdog was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.”

Ifs Feels Writing Play Possibility Circumstances Despair I Realized Great Gifts

Author:Suzan-Lori Parks

“I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'”

Ifs Mind Fall Serious Circumstances Please Atheist Knees Save Me

Author:Don McCullin

“If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.”

Ifs Faces Jesus Christ Circumstances Jesus Christ

Book:Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

“It is so important that our lives are built not on our feelings or circumstances, but on the word of God, and songs can really help us to meditate on and retain truth. I know from the correspondence I regularly receive that if you can express in songs the profound truth of the gospel in a poetic yet accessible way, they really can have an impact in people's lives.”

People Ifs Knows Way Important Helping Feelings Song Our Lives Circumstances Built Impact Profound Poetic Word Of God Correspondence Profound Truth

Author:Stuart Townend

“I go and I keep friends with [Abe] Rosenthal at the New York Times and people of that sort, you know. And all - I mean, not all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm friendly with Israel. But they don't know how I really feel about what they are doing to this country. And I have no power, no way to handle them, but I would stand up if under proper circumstances.”

People Ifs Knows Way Feels Mean Country Know How New York Mines Circumstances Jew Israel Scary Handle Friendly New York Times Great Friend Swarms Abe

Author:Billy Graham

“When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.”

People Ifs Different Whole Light Loses Wonder Circumstances Normal Doctors Perfectly Normal Different Meanings Approaching Death

Author:Joan Didion

“As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.”

Ifs Circumstances Opposites Tables All Time Manners Gentleman Kicks Misunderstood Etiquette Liable Dining Pleasantries

Book:The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

Source: The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.”

Ifs Men Religion Mankind Circumstances Fortune Driven Useless Uncertainty Favour Superstitious Credulity Hopes And Fears

Book:A Theologico-Political Treatise

Source: A Theologico-Political Treatise

“If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.”

Ifs Wells May Individual Nations History Circumstances Refrain Reproach Candor Discreet

Book:Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

Source: Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

“It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.”

Ifs Life Children I Can Faces Form Greater Victory Circumstances Offers Aspect Appreciate Like Me Lifts Hardship Conquest Annoyance Helpers

Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.”

Ifs Way May Happens Courses Events Design Habit Circumstances Eternal Repeats Peculiar Recurrence

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person.”

Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers

“Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of course, with that great talent comes some guilt because, if you come from circumstances that don't encourage it, it can be really confusing.”

People Ifs Art Reason Courses Talent Circumstances Terrible Guilt Incredibles Confusing Great Talent

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.”

People Ifs Dies Company Leader Worst Ready Circumstances Quiet Happenings Management Focused Bad Things Transition Ready To Die Wiring Unassuming

Author:James C. Collins

“No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.”

Ifs Use Growth Effort Class Style Circumstances Comfort Comfortable Standards Population Accustomed Population Growth

Author:Millicent Fawcett

“A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.”

Ifs Men May Politics Speak Ability Politician Circumstances Notion Ill Vague Tact

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.”

Ifs Men Way Mean Stills Ideas Feelings Practice Circumstances Bounds Great Things Spheres Incapable Speculation Small Things Great Ones Generalities

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.”

Source: Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

“True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself.”

“I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.”

Ifs May I Can Evil Violence Possibility Circumstances Degrees Absolutes Focused Defined Justified Because I Can Pacifist

Author:Howard Zinn

“But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.”

Ifs Giving May Truth Strong Doors Circumstances Satisfaction

Book:The dramatic works and poems of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of Steevens and Malone, with life, and historical, critical, and explanatory notices by A. Cunningham, a glossary and illustrations

Source: The dramatic works and poems of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of Steevens and Malone, with life, and historical, critical, and explanatory notices by A. Cunningham, a glossary and illustrations

“You do have to keep in mind as you're going through extraordinarily difficult circumstances, that if you stay true, true to your values, if you stay true to your principles, if you believe in these values, then you can work in that context to right policies that may not be working.”

Ifs Mind Believe May Values Difficult Principles Policy Circumstances If You Believe Stay True Difficult Circumstances

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.”

Ifs Giving Wells Doe Joy Circumstances Promise Reminding Peace And Joy

Author:Patricia Heaton

“The Law of Attraction ensures that you start attracting more of what you want into your life instead of what you don't want or instead of what always has been. The highest functioning people never even put their energy on what is if they don't like what is. That's an important difference, because most people who have a lot of "problems" in their life are constantly talking about them and focusing on them, so they just keep attracting more of those circumstances into their lives because that's where their thoughts are.”

People Ifs Want Has Beens Important Problem Law Energy Differences Talking Circumstances Highest Attraction What You Want Law Of Attraction

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Writing Jesus Christ Circumstances Research Increase Grateful Gods Will Thanks

Author:Ann Voskamp

“If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.”

Ifs Writing Real Stories Feelings Circumstances Mere Contrary Symbols Fantastic My Thoughts Comes And Goes

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.”

“Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances.”

“It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.”

Ifs Knows Hard Life Is Born Circumstances Contribution Plus Up To You

Author:Carlos Machado