Quotes of Incident - 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

“ Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. ”

- Max Frisch

“ Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. ”

- Bruce Barton

“ A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. ”

- Patrick Henry

“ Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ”

- Viktor E. Frankl

“ 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

“ 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

“ Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

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

- Marcus Aurelius

“ 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

“ Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else. ”

- Unknown

“ In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide. ”

- George Crabbe

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

- Horace

“ It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. ”

- Corey Feldman

“ For courage mounteth with occasion. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The life of the law has not been logic but experience. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- James Allen

“ The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ 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

“ I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium. ”

- Sarah Hughes

“ If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. ”

- Abigail Van Buren

“ He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances. ”

- David Hume

“ 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
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