“People are always blaming 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, 1983
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Hola Caroline, I think Seneca mad the point more concisely a couple of thousand years beforehand: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”
True!