Choices Quotes - Page 24

• You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

  Ellen Barkin

  Cute, Daughter, Mother

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• Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Success, Nature

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• The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

  Andrew Weil

  Happiness, Attitude, Expectations

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• The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Keys, Natural Talent, Choices You Make

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The most important choices you make are the choices about how you see yourself, the Universe, and your relationship to the Universe.

  Gary Zukav

  Important Choices, Choices You Make, Our Relationship

  Gary Zukav (2012). “Mind of the Soul”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

  Scott Peterson

  Block, Stones, Ends

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• Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.

  R. T. Kendall

  Love Is, Feelings, Tears

  R.T. Kendall (2010). “Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain—God Wants You to Lay it All Aside”, p.33, Charisma Media

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• From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

  David Simon

  Spiritual, Attachment, Expression

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.28, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a life, but agreement between ideals, aspirations and deeds is key to a life of peace, happiness and success.

  David Simon

  Keys, Agreement, Desire

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.33, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything.

  David Simon

  Mean, Acceptance, Relax

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.56, Health Communications, Inc.

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• We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.

  Sheena Iyengar

  World, Interpretation, Ability

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• We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

  Melody Beattie

  Our Choices, Consequence

  Melody Beattie (2009). “Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

  Melody Beattie

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Looks

  Melody Beattie (2009). “Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Ideas, Magic

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• When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.

  Melody Beattie

  Powerful, Simple, Looks

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• The more bad choices you make, the less bad your choices seem.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Choices You Make, Bad Choices, Seems

  Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley (2010). “Redemption”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to gain information, to have thoughts for that matter, to make plans, to enter into the political system in some active way, to put forth programs and so on. If organizations of that kind exist, then democracy can exist too. Otherwise it's a matter of pushing a lever every couple of years; it's like having the choice between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Hero, Mean

  "Intervention in Vietnam and Central America: Parallels and Differences". 1985.

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• Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ [as] crowds of Japanese silently streamed after us, stretching out their hands to touch Hawking's wheelchair. ... The crowds had streamed after Einstein [on Einstein's visit to Japan in 1922] as they streamed after Hawking seventy years later. ... They showed exquisite choice in their heroes. ... Somehow they understood that Einstein and Hawking were not just great scientists, but great human beings.

  Freeman Dyson

  Jesus, Hero, Science

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• We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Struggle, Heart

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• Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

  Abraham Cowley

  Friendship, Numbers, Acquaintance

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• Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Peace, Heart, Unhappy

  Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar

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• There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Eye, Voice, Air

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• A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

  William Hazlitt

  Vanity, Idolatry, Objects

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

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• A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Angel, Men, Illumination

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• Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Loyalty, Soul

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