Choosing To Live Quotes

• By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

  Henry Miller

  Ordinary, Levels, Problem

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• Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.

  Duane Elgin

  Appreciation, Mean, Simplicity

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• Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.

  Paul Pearsall

  Addiction, Facts, Description

  Paul Pearsall (2009). “Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need: Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, be a Good Blamer and Throttle Your Inner Child”, p.45, Basic Books

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• We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live

  Peter McWilliams

  Suicide, Exercise, Animal

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• I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends. Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.

  Beatrice Wood

  Girlfriend, Husband, Men

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• Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?

  Debbie Ford

  Giving, Heaven, Suffering

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• This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Years, Wonder

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• Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Thinking, Space

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• I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Photography, Believe, Brave

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