Quotes of Occurrence - 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

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

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Bing Crosby

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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

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

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ”

- Franklin P. Jones

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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

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

- Ambrose Bierce

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

- Unknown

“ Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. ”

- John Keats

“ 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

“ I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake. ”

- Luis Miguel

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

- Abigail Van Buren

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

- Anthony Robbins

“ F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. — and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits? ”

- Richard Mitchell

“ Experience is a wonderful thing - it lets us recognize our mistakes when we make them again. ”

- Unknown

“ We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ. ”

- John Fiske

“ An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves. ”

- Henry Ford

“ I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations. ”

- John Negroponte

“ 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

“ I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done. ”

- Jack Ruby

“ The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences. ”

- Eleanor Roosevelt
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