We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.
When you have your own place, you set your own rules.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.