Chosen Quotes

• Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

  Camryn Manheim

  Positive, Hate, Forgiving

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  If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Peace, Elephants

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 22, 2014

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• There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Letting Go, Mistake

  "The Bridge Across Forever". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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• We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

  Vernon Howard

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  By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

  Christopher Columbus

  School, Goal, May

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• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gratitude, Heart, Young Friends

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• I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

  Chaim Potok

  Silence, Quality, Dimensions

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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  If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Differences

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• A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

  Robert Graves

  Science, Medicine, May

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• To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

  Dennis Banks

  Running, Honor, Bags

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• Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

  John Berger

  Village, Emigration, Metropolis

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.45, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

  William James

  Philosophical, Quality, Ethics

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.242, Penguin

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• Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

  Heidi Klum

  Being Happy, Issues, Surprise

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• The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

  Jack Levine

  Disappointment, Race, Opposites

  Kenneth Wade Prescott, Jack Levine (1978). “Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings, Graphics”

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• I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

  Jerry Falwell

  Believe, Israel, People

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• I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

  Peter Garrett

  Issues, Havens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

  Minor White

  Photography, Long, Matter

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• Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

  Neil Armstrong

  Roles, Firsts, Flight

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Literature, Love You

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• War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, War, Giving

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• Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Love, Funny, Girl

  Quoted in Helen Handley, The Lover's Quotation Book (1986)

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• The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

  Albrecht Durer

  Artist, Public Opinion, Overwhelmed

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• And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dancing, Would Be, Want

  "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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