Choices Quotes - Page 20

• I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.

  Heather Mercer

  Spiritual, Growing Up, Godly

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• At the end of the day, for people in this position, you just need to make something that feels like you're expressing yourself honestly, something that you'd want to listen to. The rest of the aesthetic is kind of bullshit, and I don't mean that in a negative way - just that it's a choice.

  Robin Pecknold

  Mean, People, Bullshit

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• The God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government. And he has sent other choice spirits to preserve it.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Patriotic, Government

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

  Jonas Salk

  Spiritual, Evolution, Guides

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• Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do with yourself; it all depends on you whether you grow or you don´t. It is your choice- and each moment the choice has to be faced; each moment you are on the crossroads.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Flower, Men

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• Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

  Joel Osteen

  Running, Pain, Past

  Joel Osteen (2007). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time you make the right choice in the face of potential criticism you build strength that makes choosing the right easier the next time. When you make it clear that you will not vary from your standards, you will be led to individuals like yourself and the criticism from others will become less intense.

  Richard G. Scott

  Criticism, Next, Faces

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• Even though i have no other choice but to marry you... I Just want to make it clear that i love and will always love Matt Hardy

  Amy Dumas

  Wrestling, Want, Clear

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• When you are made to choose between two good things... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.

  Noemie Lenoir

  Thinking, Two, Good Things

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• Heaven or Hell? You make it seem as if that's an easy choice to make. Sitting there in heaven watching others burn, and I can't do anything to help? That in itself would be hell for me. I'd be up there fighting god and his angels to let me out, so that I can come down and at least try to help. I am a moral person. Heaven is for uncaring Hypocrites.

  Deborah Pryce

  Fear, Hypocrite, Angel

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• The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life ... only the Lord gives and takes life.

  Margaret Heckler

  Issues, Giving, Abortion

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• I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

  Raymond Smullyan

  Free Will, Chosen, My Own

  Raymond M. Smullyan, Jason Rosenhouse (2014). “Four Lives: A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits. . . That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.

  Joel Osteen

  Mean, Discipline, People

  Joel Osteen (2009). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.

  Abraham Hayward

  Nice, Food, Class

  Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391

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• Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

  Immanuel Kant

  Independence, Human Nature, Impulse

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• For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Soul, Duty

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• Free will means that you have the choice to connect to spirit... or not.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Mean, Free Will

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.14, Hay House, Inc

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• Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

  L. Tom Perry

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Omnipotence

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• Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting joy. But if we refuse His love and remain in the coldness of sin and opposition to Him and to other men then will His fire (by our own choice rather than His) become our everlasting enemy, and Love, instead of being our joy, will become our torment and our destruction.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Love Is, Men

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.124, New Directions Publishing

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• The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow a political and selected pattern.

  John Sparkman

  Choices Made, Law, Political

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• The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with it. That is where free will comes in. Once having chosen, a man has to accept the consequences of his choice, and go on from there.

  Swami Yogananda

  Men, Important, Goes On

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• I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Hard Work, Discipline

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• If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Good Life, Mistake

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• The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A given culture reveals its understanding of life through the choices it makes in production and consumption... a great deal of educational and cultural work is urgently needed, including the education of consumers in the responsible use of their power of choice.

  Pope John Paul II

  Educational, Teaching, Order

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• Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.

  John Robbins

  Ignorance, Blessing, Calling

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