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8a6272f	We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.	choice inspiration imagination life attitude 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.	kindness choice inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational attitude giving respect choices	Roy T. Bennett
fdf1cfe	Two roads diverged in a wood, and I	individuality choice inspirational consequence	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.	letting-go-and-moving-on letting-go future choice inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational	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.	choice inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational excuse choices	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.	dance sleep pain individuality choice treasure identity life love name pleasure	Neil Gaiman
0141ece	You Are the Master of Your Attitud	choice inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational attitude choices	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 inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living destiny inspiring life inspirational decision decisions choices	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.	action abundance nature choice motivational success happiness hope love inspirational	Steve Maraboli
07c5a98	Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?	jesus choice	Chuck Palahniuk
46e2f4a	Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.	choice inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational beliefs believe belief choices	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.	responsibility choice	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 sarah-dessen unbroken future choice wisdom inspirational	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 course domino fate world choice life inspirational monumental chain reaction stranger decision lives	J.D. Stroube
da39a3e		nature quailty freedom goodness choice beauty inspiration science darkness motivational hope intelligence life inspirational marie-lu intimate american-dream dedication watchmen meaning-of-life order hardship pure harmony evil	Terry Pratchett
3cd7955	Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?	choice good-looks cleverness 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 future choice leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational leader leaders beliefs believe belief decision choices	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 core-values leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational choices	Roy T. Bennett
2c49834	Leaders live by choice, not by accident.	mark-gorman choice leadership dreams inspirational winning leaders goals	Mark Gorman
dff8feb	Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.	opportunity-temptation temptation choice life inspirational	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.	happy live-life-happy choice inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness life inspirational choose	Roy T. Bennett
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	empathy free-will morality compassion choice science wisdom inspirational reductionism determinism	Clarence Darrow
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	empathy free-will morality compassion choice science wisdom inspirational reductionism biology determinism	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 compassion choice motivational success life inspirational participate seize-the-day 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 life frances-hodgson-burnett	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)	interdependence hatred equality choice religion exclusion inclusion 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.	responsibility freedom choice society redemption consequences	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?	good-and-evil fate time free-will choice change chain-of-events long-term circumstance intention cause-and-effect results opposites result chance crime	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.	women choice a-song-of-ice-and-fire	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...	good-and-evil morality choice	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 paradox conflict	Stephen R. Donaldson
4e2bec8	There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.	good choice reality truth worse worst bad decide decision choices evil	Robin Hobb
968c7d5	Yetta thought.	choice suffrage vote choices	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.	women choice abortionists adoption	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
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.	goodness choice cause evil	Anthony Burgess
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.	virtue man mind good morality choice reason life philosophy john-galt pursuit-of-happiness objectivism rational think thinking morals values evil	Ayn Rand
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
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 medwyn taran duty will	Lloyd Alexander
515c08d	<> he said. <> <> the Alien said.	choice life volition	Ursula K. Le Guin
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 trust love guide guidance	Bell Hooks
24479b2	"It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all."	wrong choice make father	Bernard Cornwell
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.	choice americans	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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.	world future choice change	Juliet Marillier
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 soul-journey love-heals psyche integration life-journey healing 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.	human choice faith spirituality religion god life love wisdom moral-imagination new-humanism nonbelief life-force tribe diversity reverence energy community belief ethics mystery ritual	Krista Tippett
f9e8f30	In large measure, we are with respect to any choice is we are, attentionally, in the moment before the choice.	choice who where	Robert B. Cialdini
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.	choice conviction belief	Tite Kubo
7e34cc6	It's a queer business, making oneself blind.	choice	Ursula K. Le Guin
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."	marriage women choice chaucer feminity wife-of-bath wife	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.	choice life-lessons life wisdom big-picture choices-and-consequences maturation decisions choices	J. Courtney Sullivan
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.	free-will choice satan	Susan Cooper
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.	live choice death life bitter mourn cry decision humility	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. 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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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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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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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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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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"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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"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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Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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