Quotes About Optional

Brilliance is encouraged but optional. Competence, however, is mandatory.

Be anxious for nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Is this what he meant? Not exactly. He wrote the phrase in the present active tense, which implies an ongoing state. It's the life of perpetual anxiety that Paul wanted to address. The Lucado Revised Translation reads, Don't let anything in life leave you perpetually breathless and in angst. The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.

I'm not saying everything else is unimportant. I'm just saying that I've learned to see everything else as optional.

Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19].

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Reading this chapter is optional but as you've read it you've read it.

Reading this chapter is optional but as you've read it you've read it.

allow an optional technology back into your life at the end of the digital declutter, it must: Serve something you deeply value (offering some benefit is not enough). Be the best way to use technology to serve this value (if it's not, replace it with something better). Have a role in your life that is constrained with a standard operating procedure that specifies when and how you use it.

consider the technology optional unless its temporary removal would harm or significantly disrupt the daily operation of your professional or personal life.

it just meant not deriving your personal and emotional identity from your work, and viewing work as something optional, more like a hobby.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.

Is motherhood really optional when you're a perfectly normal woman married to a perfectly normal man?

já não temos nenhuma necessidade de um deus para explicar o que não é mais misterioso. O que os crentes farão agora que sua fé é opcional, particular e irrelevante é problema deles. Não devemos nos importar, desde que eles não façam novas tentativas de inculcar a religião por qualquer forma de coerção.

The faithful stand acquitted on that charge: we no longer have any need of a god to explain what is no longer mysterious. What believers will do, now that their faith is optional and private and irrelevant, is a matter for them. We should not care, as long as they make no further attempt to inculcate religion by any form of coercion.

Jules: Why are you on the floor? Emma: I've heard roling out of bed in the morning helps you build up resistance to surprise attacks. Jules: Oh yeah? What does screaming "holy crap!" do? Emma: That part's optional.

Belief in God optional. Belief in the self is imperative.

Every believer may not be called to preach, but every Christian is called to pray. Prayer is our duty. Prayer is our privilege. Prayer, like air, water and food, is necessary for our survival and growth. But many believers regard prayer as an optional activity.

The Scriptures picture the church as an essential, chosen organism in whom Christ dwells; the reality is that people view the church as an optional institution, unnecessary for discipleship.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

Eww, Jack said, and then giggled. Yeah, and a Paris Hilton doll that had an optional brain.Aphrodite raised her brow at him. Don't go all crazy. There are some things even Paris Hilton can't buy.