We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.
Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.
Therefore, be honest with yourself as to why you are choosing to do a particular thing. Then, do it gladly, knowing that you are always getting to do what you want. The statement "I have no choice" is a lie. You can choose. You simply do not prefer the alternatives available to you, for whatever reason. So you select the outcome that you most prefer.
Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?
Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.
Use wisely your power of choice.
We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.
Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.
The world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. (Not to decide is to decide.) The Earth is in the shape it's in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.
Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It's your choice.
Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies?
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