Growth Through Changing Circumstances Quotes & Sayings

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Feelings are feelings, no matter when they happen. Our bodies don't stop being ours just because worse things happen to other people. — Foz Meadows

As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change. — Solon

The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that. — Barack Obama

Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an
armed robber, with a pike in his hand. — Petrarch

Life is not in the habit of producing just what we want when we want it. For every exciting, challenging task there are usually a hundred dull ones to be tackled."

Detective Thanet- Puppet for a Corpse — Dorothy Simpson

We find . . . in everyday life, where dilemmas are sometimes solved by the most surprising new propositions; many artists, philosophers, and even scientists owe some of their best ideas to inspirations . . . from the unconscious. — C. G. Jung