"Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results—the fragrance of celestial flowers—to the daily life of others."

"Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances."

"Circumstances alter cases."

"It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men."

"Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own."

"The long arm of coincidence."

"Odd instances of strange coincidence."

"I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse—borne away with every breath."

"Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms."

"The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge, And thus some seeming pettiest chance Oft gives our life its after-tinge. The trifles of our daily lives, The common things, scarce worth recall, Whereof no visible trace survives, These are the mainsprings after all."

"Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more."

"And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance."

"Leave frivolous circumstances."

"My circumstances Being so near the truth as I will make them, Must first induce you to believe."

"The Lie with Circumstance."

"Condition, circumstance is not the thing."

"Events are the true schoolmasters."

"Man without religion is the creature of circumstances. Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them."

"To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives."

"Circumstances beyond my individual control."

"Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men."

"And circumstance, that unspiritual god, And miscreator, makes and helps along Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod, Whose touch turns hope to dust—the dust we all have trod."

"Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan, suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn."

"When to elect there is but one, 'Tis Hobson's Choice; take that or none."

"Thy royal will be done—'tis just," Replied the wretch, and kissed the dust; "Since, my last moments to assuage, Your Majesty's humane decree Has deigned to leave the choice to me, I'll die, so please you, of old age."

"S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre."

"Or fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die."

"The difficulty in life is the choice."

"For many are called, but few are chosen."

"But one thing is needful; and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her."

"Where passion leads or prudence points the way."

"Se soumettre ou se démettre."

"Inter sacrum et sazim."

"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose."

"Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses."

"Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods."

"What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost Than never to have fought at all!"

"Of harmes two the less is for to chose."

"If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes."

"A strange alternative * * * Must women have a doctor or a dance?"

"It is misleading to say that somebody "chose" a dysfunctional relationship or any other negative situation in his or her life. Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present. Until you reach that point, you are unconscious, spiritually speaking. This means that you are compelled to think, feel, and act in certain ways according to the conditioning of your mind. That is why Jesus said: "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." This is not related to intelligence in the conventional sense of the word. I have met many highly intelligent and educated people who were also completely unconscious, which is to say completely identified with their mind. In fact, if mental development and increased knowledge are not counterbalanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness, the potential for unhappiness and disaster is very great. p. 142"

"Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay."

"When conflicted between two choices, take neither."

"[W]e now face a demand to make choices that is unparalleled in human history."