#circumstance

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances. ↗

— Allison Williams

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People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances. ↗

— Sam Worthington

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I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. ↗

— Paul Getty

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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. ↗

— John Heywood

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ↗

— Horace

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