Quotes About Choice

One of the difficult early challenges at this stage is to make a commitment to one idea. At the wide-open What If stage of inquiry, one tends to ask many questions, to explore multiple possibilities—from practical to far-out ideas. But when it comes time to act on an idea, you have to narrow possibilities and converge on the one deemed worthy of being taken to the next level.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

a living dog is better than a dead lion.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

one could not choose one's family, but one could certainly choose one's manners.

I do not think poor human nature so sorry a piece of workmanship as they would make it out to be; and as far as I have observed, I am fully satisfied that man, if left to himself, would about as readily go right as wrong. It is only this eternally sounding in his ears that it is his duty to go right which makes him go the very reverse. The

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

When we come to understand that the Christian life is something that I "get to do," not something I "have to do," then we are coming near to the Christ life.

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.

there are two pains in life: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret. You choose.

Remember that suffering will change you, but not necessarily for the better. You must choose to grow better not bitter.

It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy. . . . It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love." HENRI NOUWEN

Suffering will change us, but not necessarily for the better. We have to choose that. And it was the choosing that made all the difference for me.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

There are passages and doors And Realms that lie unseen. There are Roads both wide and narrow And no avenue between. Doors Remain closed for those Who in sad vanity yet hide. Yet when Belief is chosen, The key appears inside. What is lived now will soon pass, And what is not will come to Be. The Door Within must open, For one to truly see. Do you see? Believe and enter.

Lead, follow—what difference does it make? It's all a choice. There's no escape in blame, no comfort in shirking responsibility. We all make choices. We must all face the consequences of those choices.

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 are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace