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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
-James Allen
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More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man.
-Woody Allen
My Speech to the Graduates First published in the New York Times in 1979
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Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?
-Eric Allenbaugh
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The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.
-Raul Armesto
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
-Margaret Atwood
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He tells himself over and over again in any choice presented to him, 'Prefer the hard.' This holds good not only in great matters, but also in very small, in fighting by the frozen Danube and in starting the day early.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
-Richard Bach
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-Francis Bacon
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Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.
-Frederick Bailes
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I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
-Pearl Bailey
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It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.
-Sondra Anice Barnes
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Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
-Eric Berne
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If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
-Yogi Berra
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Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.
-Bhagavad Gita
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Refuse the evil, and choose the good. Isaiah 7:15
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I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. Deuteronomy 30:19
-Bible
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We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.
-Helen P. Blavatsky
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Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.
-R. H. Blyth
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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
-James Boswell
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You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose
-Harry Browne
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Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
-Leo Buscaglia
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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
-Liz Carpenter
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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
-Rachel Carson
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
-Deepak Chopra
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Books about Choice
