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
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
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Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
John Wooden
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Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it…
This will miraculously transform your whole life.
Eckhart Tolle
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It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
Oprah Winfrey
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