Choices Quotes - Page 25

• Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

  Liz Carpenter

  Life, Encouraging, Want

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• Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

  Kent Nerburn

  Creativity, Decisions We Make, Creative

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• Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

  Rajneesh

  Weed, Opportunity, Garden

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• Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves...but first you have to make some kind of move.

  Mort Walker

  Life, Moving, Past

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• Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
  To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

  John Milton

  Crazy, Ambition, Mad

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 261

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• Even talking about change can be threatening to entrenched interests...Careers in the Pentagon, the board room, or the halls of Congress are not advanced by creating the disruptions that go with real change, so there are very few voices willing to speak up for the future and move beyond rhetoric to make serious choices.

  Mac Thornberry

  Military, Real, Moving

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• In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.

  John Garamendi

  War, Mistake, Military

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• If I have a choice whether to do the show or throw a straight pass, and we're going to get the basket either way, I'm going to do the show.

  Pete Maravich

  Basketball, Way, Baskets

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• We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present.

  Desmond Tutu

  Crazy, Gay, Suffering

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• Make it look like your skin is not so angry at you for your bad life choices.

  Jenna Marbles

  Makeup, Skins, Looks

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• There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Queens, Gay, Things In Life

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• There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.

  Lady Gaga

  Believe, Gay, People

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• Well, you show me the science [that being gay is not a choice] and I'll be persuaded.

  Herman Cain

  Gay, Show Me, Shows

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• One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

  Enrico Fermi

  Might, Sun, Would Be

  Enrico Fermi (1965). “Note e memorie (Collected papers)”

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• We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

  George Whyte-Melville

  Friendship, Horse, Men

  George John Whyte-Melville (1898). “Works: Riding recollections”

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• Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

  Horace Walpole

  Funny, Life, Ghouls

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• I need relationships, but sometimes when I am in one I feel claustrophobic. It is about feeling that I still have my freedom, that I have choices. I don't look back on the past because I like to live in the present. I know this makes some people think I probably never cared, but I need my freedom and I like to keep moving.

  Juliette Binoche

  Moving, Being Single, Past

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• Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters.

  Michael Josephson

  Life, Matter, Circumstances

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• ... my life has been dedicated to my growth and evolution as a conscious being. ... becoming more aware of all that was taking place within me and around me; how my inner world affected my outer world and vice versa. I realized that the more awareness I have, the more choice I have in how I create or respond to the circumstances of my life.

  Shakti Gawain

  Growth, Vices, World

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• The optimal choice that you can make in any situation is to grow spiritually. That means intending to create harmony, sharing, cooperation and reverence for life... There is wisdom in each of your choices because each of them creates consequences that you mwill experience and if you choose, learn from.

  Gary Zukav

  Mean, Soul, Reverence For Life

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• The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another of God's creative principles: that humanity has free will. What that means is that in any given moment, it is our choice whether we move toward love or retreat from it. What is not love is fear. But in the larger scheme of things, there is a limit past which lovelessness cannot remain. Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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• The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Challenges, Soul

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.224, Harmony

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• The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This man had already passed through the two stages of observation and generalization. He had not, however, what scientific technique demands - a careful choice of significant facts on the one hand, and, on the other hand, various means of arriving at laws otherwise than my mere generalization.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Science, Men

  "The Scientific Outlook".

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "The New Hugo Winners". Book by Isaac Asimov et al., p. 215, 1989.

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