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Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

— Christopher McCandless

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✓Similar Perspectives

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

— Christopher McCandless

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

— Alfred Adler

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

— Lindsay Wagner

Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

— Vince Staples

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

— Sai Baba

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

— Laura Schlessinger

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.

— Martin Landau

✗Opposing Perspectives

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

— Steven Van Zandt

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

— David Trimble