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“All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.”

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances?”

Body Light Fall Acting Principles Circumstances Various Rays Rays Of Light

Book:Opticks: A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light

Source: Opticks: A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light

“The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.”

Giving Light Desire Buddhism Circumstances Planes Rise Above Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.”

Men Real Light Might Lines Power He Man Circumstances Variety Broads Endeavor Lightning Wholeness Fullness One Line Real Power Solidity

Author:Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“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

“One of the remarkable characteristics of young wild sunflowers, in addition to growing in soil that is not hospitable, is how the young flower bud follows the sun across the sky. In doing so, it receives life-sustaining energy before bursting forth in its glorious yellow color. Like the young sunflower, when we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us. He truly is our light and life.”

World Light Young Energy Sun Growing Sky Color Son Flower Circumstances Terrible Despite Characteristics Glorious Soil Remarkable Surround Savior Yellow Bud Sustaining Bursting Sunflower

Author:Quentin L. Cook

“I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.”

Want Years Looks Light Motivation Can Do Fields Circumstances Convinced

Author:Zig Ziglar

“First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle.”

Firsts Light Life Is Universe Walks Awareness Circumstances Drink Activity Rivers Machines Miracle Tea Dishes Repetition Leafs Rushing Torches Mindless

Book:Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the healing message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. This message made all the difference; it lifted us above our daily misery. Life was still thorny and the circumstances still horrible, but the gospel brought light, hope, and joy into our lives. The plain and simple truths of the gospel warmed our hearts and enlightened our minds. They helped us look at ourselves and the world around us with different eyes and from an elevated viewpoint.”

“... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he rather gives his mind to each particular case in the light of his evidence and his ideas.”

Giving Years Mind Ideas Light Levels Cases Particular Circumstances Evidence Workers Fixed Rejects Significance Hypothesis

Author:Ronald Fisher

“In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.”

Light Names Saws Circumstances Busy Like Me Dust Streams Sunlight Floats Nameless

Book:Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing

“To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.”

“Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.”

Writing Years Firsts Light Novel Circumstances Newspapers Village Candle Reporters Attempting Newspaper Reporters Candle Lights

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light.”

“At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.”

Giving Hands Light Song Dark Watches Teach Darkness Taught Discipline Circumstances Quiet Messages Bird Mouths Shadow Gods Will Heed

Author:Oswald Chambers

“What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke”

Knows Soul Light Desire Dark Path Fire Rocks Wall Circumstances Pure Despair Summer Shadow Madness Edges My Soul Heat Purity Waking Odds Caves Nobility Sweating Theodore

Author:Theodore Roethke