#mine

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. ↗

— Martha Washington

#am #cheerful #circumstance #determined #disposition

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#country #dying #economist #famine #felt

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder. ↗

— Xi Zhi

#daily #even #examine #faults #find

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#back #every #every time #gigs #hear

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ↗

— Thomas Hood

#call #choose #day #every #every day

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#determine #him #man #reveal

We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#clearly #common #common faith #determined #distressed

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me. ↗

— William Allingham

#every #foes #hope #i #i hope that

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. ↗

— Anaxagoras

#exceedingly #live #men #mine #quiet

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#better #bring #child #fear #fitter