Quote of the Day (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, on Circumstance)

“Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.”—Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and memoirist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953), Cross Creek (1942)

Quote of the Day (Somerset Maugham, on Strength and Circumstances)

"There are very few of us who are strong enough to make circumstances serve us." — British man of letters W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts (1921)

Quote of the Day (George Bernard Shaw, on Getting Beyond Circumstances)

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” —George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)