Choice/Choosing Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

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James Russell Lowell: “Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

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Jesse Pender: “From where we are there is always a path toward love. What takes discipline is continually choosing that path.”

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Frederick F. Flack: “Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.”

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Rosa Parks: “Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.”

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Amelia Earhart: “You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.”

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Jillian Michaels: “‎Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem.”

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Jean-Paul Sartre: “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

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William Jennings Bryan: “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

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Laozi (Lao Tzu): “Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. ”

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Tara Brach: “Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.”

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Albert Camus: “Life is the sum of all your choices.”

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Michael Lerner: “Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people's choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they've received and what problems they are facing.”

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Lillian Dickson: “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.”

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Marshall Rosenberg: “You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had. ”

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Madame de Stael: “Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.”

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John Milton: “Reason is also choice.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Action expresses priorities. ”

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Simone Weil: “To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.”

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Charlie Brower: “The expedient thing and the right thing are seldom the same thing.”

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Henri Nouwen: “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”

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Peter Ustinov: “In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”

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Rachel Carson: “We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. ”

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John Kenneth Galbraith: “Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”

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William James: “Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.”

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Ellen DeGeneres: “I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.”

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Barbara De Angelis: “We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.”

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David Suzuki: “Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.”

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Barbara De Angelis: “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”

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Barbara De Angelis: “When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.”

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