Quotes of Happening - somelinesforyou

“ Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it "white". ”

- Bing Crosby

“ Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. ”

- John B. Sheerin

“ No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? ”

- Albert Einstein

“ You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ I feel sure that coups d'etat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything. ”

- Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

“ Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. ”

- Cardinal De Richelieu

“ Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs ”

- Jim Morrison

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

- Horace

“ Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millenium. ”

- Charles Muses

“ Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. - James Hillman. ”

- James Hillman

“ Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ For courage mounteth with occasion. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. ”

- Robert Falcon Scott

“ Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ”

- James Allen

“ Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. ”

- Richard Bach

“ It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. ”

- Will Rogers
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