Choose Life Quotes

• Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Morning

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• What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Happiness, Make Others Happy

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• Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?

  Irvine Welsh

  Trainspotting, Needs, Reason

  "Fictional character: Renton". "Trainspotting", 1996.

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• Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

  Mira Grant

  Beautiful, Lying, Life And Death

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.133, Hachette UK

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• The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Pain, Real, Growth

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “The Walk: A Novel”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly irresponsible, or we can be caring and compassionate. God says, "I have set before you life and death... Choose life."

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Home, Caring

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• When we talk about sin, we need to understand what sin is. Sin is not God says 'you can't do this' because He wants to take something away from you. He says: "If you do this, it will be death. If you do this, it will be life." And then He says: "Please, choose life, so that you can live. I've made you, I know how you work. I've made this whole Earth, I know how it works. Please, choose life.

  Lacey Mosley

  Needs, Earth, Want

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• All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.

  Pope Francis

  Block, Thinking, Self

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• Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.

  Eugen Sandow

  Life, Motivational, Moving On

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• It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.

  Elie Wiesel

  Blessing, Men, Years

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• Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Blessing, Men

  Erich Fromm (1963). “War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness”

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• Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your best away. There’s more. What’s the problem? Relax. You’re going to die. Throw a party. Eat off my plate. Sing to me. Meet me in the bedroom. Get a massage. Give one. Let your amazement out into the room. Pry open the box you hide your joy in. Be a poem.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Love, Life, Giving Up

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• It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Acceptance, Acceptance Of Death

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.95, Random House

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• Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Joy, Negativity, Humanity

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• What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Time, Real, Ties

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• The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully. The heart is the place of decision, deeper than our psychic drives. It is the place of truth, where we choose life or death. It is the place of encounter.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

  Alveda King

  Mother, Baby, Steps

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• In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Life, Courage, Believe

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• I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning. These past thirty days, I have spent many of my moments lost in that void. And I know that many future moments will be consumed by the vast emptiness as well. But when I can, I want to choose life and meaning.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Heart, Past, Thinking

  "Sheryl Sandberg Offers Grieving Guidance, Calls for Support Systems After Husband's Death" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 3, 2015.

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• To choose life with God is to choose a blessed life.

  Brian Houston

  Blessed, Blessed Life

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• I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, Hate, People

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2009). “Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time”, p.138, Penguin

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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, Choices

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• Integrity requires that I discern what is integral to my selfhood, what fits
  and what does not-and that I choose life-giving ways of relating to the forces that converge within me: Do I welcome them or fear them, embrace them or reject them, move with them or against them? By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Integrity, Real, Moving

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• Leaders select noble objectives and pursue them with such intensity that others join them. ... The greatest of all leaders from this perspective was Jesus Christ. ....May your choices be so powerful and magnetic that you'll draw people toward life (Duet. 30:19, ...therefore choose life.-) rather than death, blessing rather than cursing.

  John Ashcroft

  Jesus, Powerful, Blessing

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• All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

  Rebecca West

  Good Life, Fiction, Biographies

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