Choices Quotes - Page 18

• Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, President, Distinguished

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.277, Penguin

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• Some changes we can control, but we find that many things are inseparably wired into the life we share in local, national, and global communities. For example, the healthy lifestyle you are determined to live and take to be a personal choice of which you have control, is heavily influenced and limited by the culture and industries of the communities you belong to.

  Ilchi Lee

  Community, Healthy, Example

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Mar 25, 2014

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• I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Believe, Moving

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?

  Deb Caletti

  Why Not, Picks, Ifs

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Mellow

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• We have a choice. We can live in the past and be miserable and unhappy, or we can pick ourselves up and move ahead in life. When we choose to focus forward, we can find the energy and ability to remove any obstacles that may appear to be hindering our smooth progression. If you take stock of yourself and find you may be spending time frequently reliving unhappy experiences of the past, make the decision to rid yourself of the ties that bind you to a former way of life.

  John Templeton

  Moving, Past, Ties

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• Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

  Adam Hamilton

  Pain, Disappointment, Believe

  Adam Hamilton (2011). “The Journey, Expanded Large Print Edition: Walking the Road to Bethlehem”, p.73, Abingdon Press

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• You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Yearning

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• You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes.

  Christian Dior

  Fashion, Shoes, Icons

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• Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

  Dennis Lehane

  Animal, Always Believe

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Gone, Baby, Gone”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

  Lisa Randall

  World

  Lisa Randall (2005). “Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions”, Lane, Allen

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• Our choice, always, is to love and understand.

  Ping Fu

  Our Choices

  Ping Fu (2012). “Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds”, p.172, Penguin UK

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• When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Long, Goal, Mind

  Kelly McGonigal (2011). “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It”, p.24, Penguin

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• Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.

  Karen Rose

  Fate, Opportunity

  Karen Rose (2009). “Nothing to Fear (The Chicago Series Book 3)”, p.56, Hachette UK

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• Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it.

  Stephanie Nielson

  Way, Persons, Hard

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• We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame.

  Tom Krause

  Games, Play, Blame

  Tom Krause, “Choices”

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• Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is a conversion to humanity — a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life.

  Carter Heyward

  Healing, Love Life, Love Is

  "Our Passion for Justice". Book by Carter Heyward, 1984.

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• The best thing you can do for yourself is to accept other people’s behavior and the choices they make. You may not agree with them, you may even wish them to do things differently, but accept it. Just as you would appreciate other people accepting the choices that you make.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  People, Appreciate, Wish

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• The best way to experience the power of fundamental choices is to make them.

  Robert Fritz

  Fundamentals, Way, Best Way

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• Each new moment presents an opportunity for conscious choice. We can choose to let go of the past. We can choose to be here now. We can choose to accept responsibility for ourselves. . . . We can choose to awaken. Or we can choose to remain asleep and unconscious.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Letting Go, Responsibility, Past

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• Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

  Anne Rice

  Fear

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• Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.

  Edward Felten

  Pigs, Dancing, Internet

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• The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Motivation, Inspiration, Keys

  "How to make choosing easier". TED conference, www.ted.com. November, 2011.

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• The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Expansion, Explosions

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• Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Art, Squares, Rebel

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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