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Quotes About Choice

They learned the wrong things. But if we stay, if we fight, we will remember the wrong things. And then we would become… We decided that we would rather not remember.
~ Naomi Novik
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Let's be shameless. Be greedy. Pursue pleasure. Avoid pain. Wear and touch and eat and drink what we feel like. Tolerate other women's choices. Seek out the sex we want and fight fiercely against the sex we do not want. Choose our own causes And once we break through and change the rules so our sense of our own beauty cannot be shaken, sing that beauty and dress it up and flaunt it and revel in it.
~ Naomi Wolf
The real issue has nothing to do with whether women wear makeup or don't, gain weight or lose it, have surgery or shun it, dress up or down, make our clothing and faces and bodies into works of art or ignore adornment altogether. The real problem is our lack of choice.
~ Naomi Wolf
Women will be free of the beauty myth when we can choose to use our faces and clothes and bodies as simply one form of self-expression out of a full range of others. We can dress up for our pleasure, but we must speak up for our rights.
~ Naomi Wolf
Lad os være skamløse. Grådige. Opsøge fornøjelser. Undgå smerte. Klæde os, spise og drikke, som vi har lyst til. Være tolerante over for andre kvinders valg. Vælge den form for sex, vi har lyst til og kæmpe hårdt mod den form for sex, vi ikke har lyst til. Finde vore egne grunde til at handle, som vi gør.
~ Naomi Wolf
And I wondered why there were no studies of communities that did not "lock down" — communities in which people chose their own levels of risk while providing support to those who wished to "isolate" or who wanted to protect their own, more vulnerable immune systems while others made different choices. I wondered why no one wanted to know what was becoming of them.
~ Naomi Wolf
So what were these "restrictions" really for? Why were they proliferating and shape shifting day by day and week by week? Gradually, it became clear. The true reason had nothing to do with medicine. The true reason is that, in the elites' war against Western humanism, "restrictions" had become the weapon of choice.
~ Naomi Wolf
We rise to high positions or remain at the bottom because of conditions we can control if we desire to control them.
~ Napoleon Hill
Most people go through life by the line of least resistance in every circumstance where they can make a choice. They do not recognize that following the lines of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked!
~ Napoleon Hill
Wrong selection of a vocation. No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
~ Napoleon Hill
Some men know that they are being influenced by the women of their choice—their wives, sweethearts, mothers, or sisters—but they tactfully refrain from rebelling against the influence because they are intelligent enough to know that no man is happy or complete without the modifying influence of the right woman. The man who does not recognize this important truth deprives himself of the power which has done more to help men achieve success than all other forces combined.
~ Napoleon Hill
OVER-CAUTION. The person who takes no chances, generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing. Over-caution is as bad as under-caution. Both are extremes to be guarded against. Life itself is filled with the element of chance.
~ Napoleon Hill
really did not sell to him. He purchased of his own accord.
~ Napoleon Hill
The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.
~ Carl Sandburg
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you... Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions.... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.
~ Carlos Castaneda
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
~ Carlos Castaneda
We either make ourselves miserable, or make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Each man is different. Each man must follow his own path. Each man is the same. Each man must follow his own path.
~ Carlos Castaneda
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Hablamos de religión o de economía? - Elija usted la nomenclatura.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Alguien dijo una vez que en el momento en que te paras a pensar si quieres a alguien. Ya has dejado de quererle para siempre.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon