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• When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make.

  Ricardo Carvalho

  Ambition, Quality, Clubs

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• The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible of reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

  Robert Fritz

  Failure, People, Focus

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• No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.

  Cory Booker

  Attitude, Kindness, Hate

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Mar 11, 2010

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• The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Pain, Struggle, Evil

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1980). “Off Center: Essays”

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• Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

  Steve Pavlina

  Sacrifice, Thought Provoking, Risk

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• Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.

  Steve Pavlina

  Mirrors, Thought Provoking, Feel Good

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• If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thought Provoking, Boss, May

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• Let's start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there's something better out there is to first believe there's something better out there. What other choice is there?

  Greg Behrendt

  Sweet, Lonely, Hurt

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• When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• Choices in life are not and should not be determined by our life circumstances.

  Karni Liddell

  Women, Determined, Should

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• I believe every single one of us has a choice in life and that we can all choose to live out whatever our exceptional minds dream up.

  Karni Liddell

  Dream, Women, Believe

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• One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.

  Steve Pavlina

  Belief, Free Will, Made

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• If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Cities, Expression, Imagination

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• I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love.

  Peter McWilliams

  Loneliness, Love You, Two

  Peter McWilliams (1977). “Catch me with your smile”, Blue Mountain Press

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• It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. This theory believes that love is a magical force which frees us from all suffering and solves every problem, that it is an end unto itself. To a limited extent, there may be some truths to each of these beliefs, but having the capacity to love is not the same as having the ability to love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Running, Believe, Love You

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• Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

  Confucius

  Beautiful, Wise, Men

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• The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.

  Maya Angelou

  Color, Racism, People

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• [The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

  John Ashcroft

  Religious, War, Scary

  "The gospel according to John (Ashcroft)" by Rob Morse, www.sfgate.com. February 22, 2002.

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• We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Feminist, Mazes, Culture

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• It's the time to make choices you can be proud of. It's the time to be the best version of yourself and in the process, somewhere along the way hopefully you attract the best version someone else has to offer. The more you challenge yourself, the higher your expectations become for your life and the people you want to have in it.

  Erin Foster

  Beautiful, Expectations, People

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• Sometimes we may find that our partner continues to seek satisfaction in ways that we cannot live with. Nevertheless, when we decide to go our own way, we still have a choice as to how we separate. We can separate with bad feelings, blaming the other's faults and unacceptable behaviour, or we can separate with forgiveness, love and understanding.

  Peter Russell

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Understanding

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• Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves compatible with liberty, equality and free political choice.

  Noah Feldman

  God, Believe, Political

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• I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.

  Joe Tye

  Adversity, Compassion, Grace

  Joe Tye (1997). “Never Fear, Never Quit: A Story of Courage and Perseverance”

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• When you make a choice to be of service to others, you gain the courage and sense of determination that will fuel your efforts. With a solid vision in place, you also become less concerned with your individual fear or self-doubt and more committed to taking the actions that will support your larger vision.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Determination, Helping Others, Self

  Cheryl Richardson (2002). “Stand Up for Your Life: Develop the Courage, Confidence, and Character to Fulfill Your Greatest Potential”

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• Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.

  Heidi Marshall

  Pieces, Made, Picks

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