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“It is one thing to read the Scriptures and affirm their truth. But until you are in the trenches of trial, until you are faced with life circumstances that test your faith, until you are pressed to the absolute limit of your physical and emotional capacity, until you face the unrelenting stress of ongoing trauma, you never really know how you'll respond to what you may have embraced so easily during a comfortable Bible study.”

Knows May Faces Know How Study One Thing Emotional Circumstances Limits Comfortable Capacity Tests Stress Absolutes Trauma Scripture Trials Ongoing Bible Study Trenches Unrelenting

Author:Kevin Malarkey

“Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.”

Giving Choices Individual Influence Circumstances Limits Negative Midst Employers Individual Choice

Author:Shawn Achor

“It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our special human existence by a mothering presence that gratifies our innate urges to be suckled, held, rocked, caressed. But that same gratifying presence puts limits on desire and rations satisfaction. In this sense the mother is also the first lawgiver.”

Firsts Humans Mother Desire Born Existence Special Circumstances Limits Satisfaction Urges Innate Human Existence Mothering Rations

Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.”

People Thinking Circumstances Limits Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary People

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value.”

Humans Values Given Deals Circumstances Limits Western Privilege Accomplish Objectives Unusual Predictions Human Will

Author:Noam Chomsky

“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.”

Thinking Given Circumstances Limits Racing

Author:Ayrton Senna