"It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances."

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Anne Ortlund

#Bad Day Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.”
“We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether itâ€™s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasnâ€™t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?”
“The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.”
“Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.”
“I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Girls, where are you? I can't find you.”
“Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.”
“As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.”

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