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• Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Difficult Situations, Suffering

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.112, Penguin

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• Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

  Oliver Hudson

  Family, Blood, Relative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.

  Marc Jacobs

  Effort, Creative, Choices

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• I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

  Rashida Jones

  Disappointment, Heartache, Looks

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• Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

  Barbara Kruger

  Drag, Surround Yourself, Delusion

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• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  Talib Kweli

  Teacher, Eye, Thinking

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• You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

  Brandon Lee

  Burden

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Friendship, Children

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• If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

  Neil Peart

  Witty, Song, Choices

  Neil Peart (2011). “Roadshow: Landscape With Drums: A Concert Tour By Motorcycle”, p.122, ECW Press

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• Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Leadership, Fighting, Differences

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• When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

  Olivia Wilde

  Odds, Actors, Against The Odds

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• Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Power, Differences

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• When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

  Gary Zukav

  Choices, Intention, Responsible

  "Why Painful Things Happen to Good People" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Loss, Dark

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2016

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• It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.

  Sarah Dessen

  Forever, Depends

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.98, Penguin

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• There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational Life, Love Is, No Fear

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• Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Thinking, Who We Are

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• No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.

  Cory Booker

  Jobs, Hard Work, Color

  "Cory Booker Speech Text: Read The Democratic Convention Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

  Sandra Bullock

  Up To You, I've Learned, Accepting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Challenges

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• When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.

  Hillary Clinton

  Presidential, Decision, Important

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• It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

  Philippa Gregory

  Boys, Mistress, Matter

  Philippa Gregory, Kristin Hannah, Janice Graham (2004). “Of love and life”

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• We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

  John Green

  Suffering, Matter, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.

  Helen Fisher

  Tattoo, Spheres, Social

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• The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

  T. Harv Eker

  Choices, Rooms, Temperature

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Feb 08, 2012

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