#circumstance

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#attitude #chose #circumstances #freedoms #given

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy

Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#happen #horrible #horrible things #just #things

Vast spaces of nature; the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; vast intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which I think and feel, underlay that former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and will always circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#death

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#anyhow #been #circumstances #desert #evil

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. ↗

— Blaine Lee

#actually #any #become #circumstances #determines

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#create #hell #i #opportunities

No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#going #just #matter #may #push

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character. ↗

— Matthew Lillard

#being #being funny #character #circumstances #funny

I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year. ↗

— Donal Logue

#by the people #circumstance #fairness #generous #i