Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself. ... by James Allen

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself. ...
by James Allen

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain

We have a choice of how we view the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

What are the proper grounds for joy?
Is it circumstance which will
determine the stature of my spirit?
Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice -
in the face of any event - for joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha

We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung

Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

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Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself. ...
by James Allen