Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

We do not have to be victims of circumstance.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

What you believe has a much greater impact on your life than what anybody else believes.

We might not be able to change our circumstances, but we CAN change our attitude.

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically. Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. In other words, what happens for most of us is that we are tempted and we are taught, we are trained as it were, to meet limited circumstances with limited thought.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

You may feel like a voice in the wilderness, but it is your voice we are waiting to hear...you are the determining factor.

You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'

What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.