Situation Quotes - Page 2

• If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Thank You, Thankful

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• Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.

  Barbara Johnson

  Love, Change, God

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.123, Zondervan

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• Whatever your situation, God wants to heal you, strengthen you, and lead you to a place where you can enjoy life again.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life, Want, Enjoy

  Joyce Meyer (2008). “The Secret to True Happiness: Enjoy Today, Embrace Tomorrow”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Focus, Vision

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, you might not see them. You might just think, "I don't have any options." You usually go to the dark side, in that situation.

  Ice T

  Dark, Thinking, Opportunity

  Source: collider.com

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• Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Men, Mould

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2014). “Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”, p.217, Restless Books

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventurous Life, New Experiences, Monotonous Life

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said ‘looks like we’re a couple of peeing Toms.’ His angry silence is something I’ll never forget.

  Tom Hanks

  Funny, Couple, Anger

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• I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

  Julia Alvarez

  Running, Difficult Situations, Silence

  Source: ncac.org

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• Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

  Dalai Lama

  Unhappy, Shelter, Comfort

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• Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Thinking, You Choose

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• Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

  Robert A. Cook

  Positive, Brain, Complaining

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• I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

  Mike Todd

  Inspirational, Attitude, Divorce

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It's necessary to know that everybody won't see it. That everybody won't join you, that everybody won't have the vision. It's necessary to know that. That a lot of people like to complain but they don't want to do anything about their situation. That you are UNCOMMON breed.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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• But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

  Francis Chan

  God, Trouble, Ifs

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.88, David C Cook

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• Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Perhaps, it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

  Henry Bromell

  Love, Beautiful, Girl

  "Fictional character: Maurice J. Minnifield". TV Series "Northern Exposure" ("The Big Kiss", 1991), 1990-1995.

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• The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.

  Michael Strahan

  Team, Winning, Focus

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• Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy... The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.

  Phil McGraw

  Motivational, Fighting, Winning

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• What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation. Real morality lies in following one's own heart.

  Embeth Davidtz

  Real, Lying, Heart

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• I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

  Benjamin Carson

  Fighting, Past, Knowledge And Power

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• Agency has become a catch word. In a way, this intoxication with ‘agency’ is the product of liberal individualism. The ability of individuals to fashion themselves, to change their live, is given ideological priority over the relation within which they themselves are actually formed, situated, and sustained.

  Talal Asad

  Relationship, Fashion, Life Changing

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• I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

  Jenny Eclair

  Glasses, Ifs, Short Sighted

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• I think that we as humans have this intuition that we should be afraid, in order to protect us from things, or be afraid in order to prepare us against things. In most emotional situations you cannot prepare, so it is really just a waste of energy. I just realised all of this - that being scared and putting my body into a serious stress situation - was actually hurting me more and wasn't making me feel healthier and was actually making me sicker when I was dealing with my disease.

  Ane Brun

  Hurt, Stress, Emotional

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.

  Shawn Wayans

  Character, Would Be, Stuff

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• If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Compassion, Would Be, Response

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