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8a6272f	We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.	attitude choice imagination inspiration life pretend	Kurt Vonnegut
20c6903	Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.	attitude choice choices giving happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring kindness life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking respect	Roy T. Bennett
fdf1cfe	Two roads diverged in a wood, and I	choice consequence individuality inspirational	robert frost
2c8fc49	Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.	choice future inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring letting-go letting-go-and-moving-on life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
42a4b9f	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.	choice inspirational	Aristotle
4e87722	Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.	change choice choices excuse inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
aec3d72	Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.	choice dance identity individuality life love name pain pleasure sleep treasure	Neil Gaiman
0141ece	You Are the Master of Your Attitud	attitude choice choices inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
270ed29	You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.	choice choices decision decisions destiny inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living	Roy T. Bennett
3bae143	Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.	abundance action choice happiness hope inspirational love motivational nature success	Steve Maraboli
07c5a98	Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?	choice jesus	Chuck Palahniuk
46e2f4a	Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.	belief beliefs believe choice choices inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
6670535	This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.	choice responsibility	Terry Pratchett
4920131	Choices determine character.	choice graulas	Brandon Mull
d263a06	The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.	be-anything choice future inspirational sarah-dessen unbroken wisdom	Sarah Dessen
90c3eab	A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.	alter chain choice course decision domino fate inspirational life lives monumental reaction stranger world	J.D. Stroube
da39a3e		inspirational motivational american-dream freedom watchmen choice darkness dedication evil goodness hardship hope marie-lu beauty harmony inspiration intelligence intimate life meaning-of-life nature order pure quailty science	Terry Pratchett
3cd7955	Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?	choice cleverness good-looks questions	L.M. Montgomery
f0d1116	Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.	action belief beliefs believe choice choices decision future inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
218627d	Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns with your core values in the most purposeful way possible.	choice choices core-values inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
2c49834	Leaders live by choice, not by accident.	choice dreams goals inspirational leaders leadership mark-gorman winning	Mark Gorman
dff8feb	Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.	choice inspirational life opportunity-temptation temptation	Steve Maraboli
6029349	Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.	choice decisions	J.K. Rowling
fa2043d	The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.	choice choose happiness happy inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes live-life-happy living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
baa604a	Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of Chicago and another of Ann Arbor; one who had passed his examination for the Harvard Law School and was about to take a trip in Europe,--another who had passed at Ann Arbor, the youngest in his class, with three thousand dollars in the bank. Boys who never knew what it was to want a dollar; boys who could reach any position that was to boys of that kind to reach; boys of distinguished and honorable families, families of wealth and position, with all the world before them. And they gave it all up for nothing, for nothing! They took a little companion of one of them, on a crowded street, and killed him, for nothing, and sacrificed everything that could be of value in human life upon the crazy scheme of a couple of immature lads	biology choice compassion determinism empathy free-will inspirational morality reductionism science wisdom	Clarence Darrow
008a52a	Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of Chicago and another of Ann Arbor; one who had passed his examination for the Harvard Law School and was about to take a trip in Europe,--another who had passed at Ann Arbor, the youngest in his class, with three thousand dollars in the bank. Boys who never knew what it was to want a dollar; boys who could reach any position that was to boys of that kind to reach; boys of distinguished and honorable families, families of wealth and position, with all the world before them. And they gave it all up for nothing, for nothing! They took a little companion of one of them, on a crowded street, and killed him, for nothing, and sacrificed everything that could be of value in human life upon the crazy scheme of a couple of immature lads. Now, your Honor, you have been a boy; I have been a boy. And we have known other boys. The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place. Is it within the realm of your imagination that a boy who was right, with all the prospects of life before him, who could choose what he wanted, without the slightest reason in the world would lure a young companion to his death, and take his place in the shadow of the gallows? ...No one who has the process of reasoning could doubt that a boy who would do that is not right. How insane they are I care not, whether medically or legally. They did not reason; they could not reason; they committed the most foolish, most unprovoked, most purposeless, most causeless act that any two boys ever committed, and they put themselves where the rope is dangling above their heads.... Why did they kill little Bobby Franks? Not for money, not for spite; not for hate. They killed him as they might kill a spider or a fly, for the experience. They killed him because they were made that way. Because somewhere in the infinite processes that go to the making up of the boy or the man something slipped, and those unfortunate lads sit here hated, despised, outcasts, with the community shouting for their blood. . . . I know, Your Honor, that every atom of life in all this universe is bound up together. I know that a pebble cannot be thrown into the ocean without disturbing every drop of water in the sea. I know that every life is inextricably mixed and woven with every other life. I know that every influence, conscious and unconscious, acts and reacts on every living organism, and that no one can fix the blame. I know that all life is a series of infinite chances, which sometimes result one way and sometimes another. I have not the infinite wisdom that can fathom it, neither has any other human brain	choice compassion determinism empathy free-will inspirational morality reductionism science wisdom	Clarence Darrow
c815e71	Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It's inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.	action choice compassion inspirational life motivational participate seize-the-day success today	Steve Maraboli
58837b8	"I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat," she mused. "Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: 'Oh, a horrid rat!' I shouldn't like people to scream and jump and say: 'Oh, a horrid Sara!' the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?" --	choice frances-hodgson-burnett life	Frances Hodgson Burnett
13e3019	We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22)	choice equality exclusion hatred inclusion interdependence religion suspicion tradition	Karen Armstrong
30c0f22	If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.	choice consequences freedom redemption responsibility society	Tom Robbins
ac01eb3	I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.	choice reason	Christine Feehan
8227eb2	The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself	choice ethics	Daniel Keyes
42cea85	We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.	choice ears eyes	Ursula K. Le Guin
f0f0ca5	Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?	cause-and-effect chain-of-events chance change choice circumstance crime fate free-will good-and-evil intention long-term opposites result results time	H. Rider Haggard
2cb3796	I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.	choice	Neil Gaiman
b1d0afa	The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear.	a-song-of-ice-and-fire choice women	George R.R. Martin
9031950	So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. The dragons are dangerous, yes. They can do harm, yes. But they're not evil. They're beneath our morality, if you will, like any animal. Or beyond it. They have nothing to do with it. We must choose and choose again. The animals need only be and do. We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom...	choice good-and-evil morality	Ursula K. Le Guin
2cabb56	And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox For he is everything and nothing Hero and fool Potent, helpless And with one word of truth or treachery He will save or damn the earth Because he is mad and sane Cold and passionate Lost and found	choice conflict paradox	Stephen R. Donaldson
4e2bec8	There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.	bad choice choices decide decision evil good reality truth worse worst	Robin Hobb
968c7d5	Yetta thought.	choice choices suffrage vote	Margaret Peterson Haddix
30f1649	No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.	abortionists adoption choice women	John Irving
d182639	The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.	choice religion	A.J. Jacobs
fdeea3d	"Do you think people can change?" I ask Rick "Yes." he answers plainly. "There are those who can." That grabs my attention. "So you believe it's possible?" "Miss Stella."He gives me his teacher-to-pupil stare. "Its boils down to choice."	choice possible	Katie McGarry
958e313	Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice -- and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man -- by choice; he has to hold his life as a value -- by choice; he has to learn to sustain it -- by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues -- by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.	choice evil good john-galt life man mind morality morals objectivism philosophy pursuit-of-happiness rational reason think thinking values virtue	Ayn Rand
d4d4c3d	But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like it, and I wouldn't ever interfere with their pleasures, and so of the other shop. And I was patronizing the other shop. More, badness is of the self, the one, the you or me or our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning tbey of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. And is not our modern history, my brothers, the story of brave malenky selves fighting these big machines? I am serious with you brothers, over this. But what I do I do because I like to do.	cause choice evil goodness	Anthony Burgess
9e7ea65	"Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice." "If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up through your own choice."	choice duty medwyn taran will	Lloyd Alexander
8bbc973	Those who choose to walk on love's path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable us to overcome fear if we trust that they will not lead us astray or abandon us along the way.	choice fear guidance guide love trust	Bell Hooks
515c08d	<> he said. <> <> the Alien said.	choice life volition	Ursula K. Le Guin
24479b2	"It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all."	choice father make wrong	Bernard Cornwell
b769edb	The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.	change choice future world	Juliet Marillier
4212501	But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437	choice living predestination	Joseph Delaney
e75f200	Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.	americans choice	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1ad53c7	You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).	choice reality	Kim Stanley Robinson
ce6367f	"Don't apologize." "I wasn't-" "Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It's a choice, Olivia." --	choice will	Kelley Armstrong
9f0f26a	I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.	choice empowerment healing integration life-journey love-heals psyche soul-journey wholeness	Maureen Brady
652073d	We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of this--the possibility of choice that arises, the ability to craft and discern one's own spiritual bearings--is not leading to the decline of spiritual life but its revival. It is changing us, collectively. It is even renewing religion, and our cultural encounter with religion, in counterintuitive ways. I meet scientists who speak of a religiosity without spirituality--a reverence for the place of ritual in human life, and the value of human community, without a need for something supernaturally transcendent. There is something called the New Humanism, which is in dialogue about moral imagination and ethical passions across boundaries of belief and nonbelief. But I apprehend-- with a knowledge that is as much visceral as cognitive-- that God is love. That somehow the possibility of care that can transform us-- love muscular and resilient-- is an echo of a reality behind reality, embedded in the creative force that gives us life.	belief choice community diversity energy ethics faith god human life life-force love moral-imagination mystery new-humanism nonbelief religion reverence ritual spirituality tribe wisdom	Krista Tippett
6ab3e9e	Even if it doesn't alter or change the end result even in the slightest... making decisions based on convictions that you believe in... and walking your own path... has it's own merit and worth. There's something to be said for not having... even on regret.	belief choice conviction	Tite Kubo
7e34cc6	It's a queer business, making oneself blind.	choice	Ursula K. Le Guin
1fb2c16	I do not believe any power can possess the mind of a man or woman... I believe in God-given free will, you see. I think nothing is forced on us, except by other people like ourselves. I think our choices are our own.	choice free-will satan	Susan Cooper
f9e8f30	In large measure, we are with respect to any choice is we are, attentionally, in the moment before the choice.	choice where who	Robert B. Cialdini
c881e66	"Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye: To han me foul and old til that I deye, And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf, And nevere yow displese in al my lyf, Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair, And take youre aventure of the repair That shal be to youre hous by cause of me, Or in som oother place, may wel be. Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh."	chaucer choice feminity marriage wife wife-of-bath women	Geoffrey Chaucer
995c992	Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose what you must be, and what you must not be, to have little choice in your life. If you were older, you could choose your own way.	choice older	Patricia A. McKillip
51fe3e5	Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.	big-picture choice choices choices-and-consequences decisions life life-lessons maturation wisdom	J. Courtney Sullivan
352fd44	There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live..' 'So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. But I'm betting on myself I will.' Koppel seemed extremely taken with Morrie. He asked about the humility that death induced.	bitter choice cry death decision humility life live mourn	Mitch Albom
3d60dc3	Sometimes it's better not to see. Sometimes it's better to have a choice.	choice	Kevin Crossley-Holland

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

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Kurt Vonnegut

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Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I

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robert frost

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Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.

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Roy T. Bennett

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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.

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Aristotle

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Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

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Neil Gaiman

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You Are the Master of Your Attitud

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Roy T. Bennett

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You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.

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Steve Maraboli

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Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?

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Chuck Palahniuk

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Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.

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Roy T. Bennett

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This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

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Terry Pratchett

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Choices determine character.

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Brandon Mull

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The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.

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Sarah Dessen

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A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.

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J.D. Stroube

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Terry Pratchett

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Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

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L.M. Montgomery

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Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns with your core values in the most purposeful way possible.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

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Mark Gorman

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Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

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Steve Maraboli

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Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

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J.K. Rowling

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The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of Chicago and another of Ann Arbor; one who had passed his examination for the Harvard Law School and was about to take a trip in Europe,--another who had passed at Ann Arbor, the youngest in his class, with three thousand dollars in the bank. Boys who never knew what it was to want a dollar; boys who could reach any position that was to boys of that kind to reach; boys of distinguished and honorable families, families of wealth and position, with all the world before them. And they gave it all up for nothing, for nothing! They took a little companion of one of them, on a crowded street, and killed him, for nothing, and sacrificed everything that could be of value in human life upon the crazy scheme of a couple of immature lads

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Clarence Darrow

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Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of Chicago and another of Ann Arbor; one who had passed his examination for the Harvard Law School and was about to take a trip in Europe,--another who had passed at Ann Arbor, the youngest in his class, with three thousand dollars in the bank. Boys who never knew what it was to want a dollar; boys who could reach any position that was to boys of that kind to reach; boys of distinguished and honorable families, families of wealth and position, with all the world before them. And they gave it all up for nothing, for nothing! They took a little companion of one of them, on a crowded street, and killed him, for nothing, and sacrificed everything that could be of value in human life upon the crazy scheme of a couple of immature lads. Now, your Honor, you have been a boy; I have been a boy. And we have known other boys. The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place. Is it within the realm of your imagination that a boy who was right, with all the prospects of life before him, who could choose what he wanted, without the slightest reason in the world would lure a young companion to his death, and take his place in the shadow of the gallows? ...No one who has the process of reasoning could doubt that a boy who would do that is not right. How insane they are I care not, whether medically or legally. They did not reason; they could not reason; they committed the most foolish, most unprovoked, most purposeless, most causeless act that any two boys ever committed, and they put themselves where the rope is dangling above their heads.... Why did they kill little Bobby Franks? Not for money, not for spite; not for hate. They killed him as they might kill a spider or a fly, for the experience. They killed him because they were made that way. Because somewhere in the infinite processes that go to the making up of the boy or the man something slipped, and those unfortunate lads sit here hated, despised, outcasts, with the community shouting for their blood. . . . I know, Your Honor, that every atom of life in all this universe is bound up together. I know that a pebble cannot be thrown into the ocean without disturbing every drop of water in the sea. I know that every life is inextricably mixed and woven with every other life. I know that every influence, conscious and unconscious, acts and reacts on every living organism, and that no one can fix the blame. I know that all life is a series of infinite chances, which sometimes result one way and sometimes another. I have not the infinite wisdom that can fathom it, neither has any other human brain

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Clarence Darrow

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Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It's inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.

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Steve Maraboli

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"I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat," she mused. "Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: 'Oh, a horrid rat!' I shouldn't like people to scream and jump and say: 'Oh, a horrid Sara!' the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?" --

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22)

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Karen Armstrong

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If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.

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Tom Robbins

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I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.

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Christine Feehan

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The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

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Daniel Keyes

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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?

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H. Rider Haggard

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I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.

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Neil Gaiman

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The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear.

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George R.R. Martin

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So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. The dragons are dangerous, yes. They can do harm, yes. But they're not evil. They're beneath our morality, if you will, like any animal. Or beyond it. They have nothing to do with it. We must choose and choose again. The animals need only be and do. We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom...

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox For he is everything and nothing Hero and fool Potent, helpless And with one word of truth or treachery He will save or damn the earth Because he is mad and sane Cold and passionate Lost and found

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Stephen R. Donaldson

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There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.

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Robin Hobb

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Yetta thought.

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Margaret Peterson Haddix

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No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

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John Irving

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The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.

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A.J. Jacobs

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"Do you think people can change?" I ask Rick "Yes." he answers plainly. "There are those who can." That grabs my attention. "So you believe it's possible?" "Miss Stella."He gives me his teacher-to-pupil stare. "Its boils down to choice."

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Katie McGarry

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Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice -- and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man -- by choice; he has to hold his life as a value -- by choice; he has to learn to sustain it -- by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues -- by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

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Ayn Rand

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But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like it, and I wouldn't ever interfere with their pleasures, and so of the other shop. And I was patronizing the other shop. More, badness is of the self, the one, the you or me or our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning tbey of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. And is not our modern history, my brothers, the story of brave malenky selves fighting these big machines? I am serious with you brothers, over this. But what I do I do because I like to do.

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Anthony Burgess

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"Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice." "If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up through your own choice."

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Lloyd Alexander

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Those who choose to walk on love's path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable us to overcome fear if we trust that they will not lead us astray or abandon us along the way.

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Bell Hooks

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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"It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all."

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Bernard Cornwell

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The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

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Juliet Marillier

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But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437

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Joseph Delaney

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Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

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Kim Stanley Robinson

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"Don't apologize." "I wasn't-" "Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It's a choice, Olivia." --

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Kelley Armstrong

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I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.

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Maureen Brady

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We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of this--the possibility of choice that arises, the ability to craft and discern one's own spiritual bearings--is not leading to the decline of spiritual life but its revival. It is changing us, collectively. It is even renewing religion, and our cultural encounter with religion, in counterintuitive ways. I meet scientists who speak of a religiosity without spirituality--a reverence for the place of ritual in human life, and the value of human community, without a need for something supernaturally transcendent. There is something called the New Humanism, which is in dialogue about moral imagination and ethical passions across boundaries of belief and nonbelief. But I apprehend-- with a knowledge that is as much visceral as cognitive-- that God is love. That somehow the possibility of care that can transform us-- love muscular and resilient-- is an echo of a reality behind reality, embedded in the creative force that gives us life.

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Krista Tippett

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Even if it doesn't alter or change the end result even in the slightest... making decisions based on convictions that you believe in... and walking your own path... has it's own merit and worth. There's something to be said for not having... even on regret.

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Tite Kubo

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It's a queer business, making oneself blind.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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I do not believe any power can possess the mind of a man or woman... I believe in God-given free will, you see. I think nothing is forced on us, except by other people like ourselves. I think our choices are our own.

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Susan Cooper

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In large measure, we are with respect to any choice is we are, attentionally, in the moment before the choice.

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Robert B. Cialdini

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"Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye: To han me foul and old til that I deye, And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf, And nevere yow displese in al my lyf, Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair, And take youre aventure of the repair That shal be to youre hous by cause of me, Or in som oother place, may wel be. Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh."

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose what you must be, and what you must not be, to have little choice in your life. If you were older, you could choose your own way.

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Patricia A. McKillip

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Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.

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J. Courtney Sullivan

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There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live..' 'So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. But I'm betting on myself I will.' Koppel seemed extremely taken with Morrie. He asked about the humility that death induced.

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Mitch Albom

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Sometimes it's better not to see. Sometimes it's better to have a choice.

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Kevin Crossley-Holland