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• Failing is not real, it's an optional state of mind.

  Behdad Sami

  Real, Mind, Failing

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2014

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• Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it.
  When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out.
  If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it.
  Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.

  Alan Cohen

  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

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• Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.

  Barbara

  Courage, Pain, Broken

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• Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and then to ask about existing ecclesiastical faith (especially about Christianity, and the Lutheran Christianity of his time and place) how this revealed faith must be interpreted if it is to be reconciled with reason, and even seen as a wider (though morally optional) extension of a religion of reason.

  Allen W. Wood

  Special, Christianity, Reason

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Optional is latin for 'Be There'.

  Darryl Sutter

  Latin

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• The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

  Clay Shirky

  Middle, Minors

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• Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world

  Kofi Annan

  Mdgs, Essentials, World

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• Life is painful, suffering is optional.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Suffering, Life Is, Painful

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• We must conclude that, being necessary to God by a necessity which is called "hypothetical", (that is, because God so willed it), the Blessed Virgin is all the more necessary for men to attain their final end. Consequently we must not place devotion to her on the same level as devotion to the other saints as if it were merely something optional.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Blessed, Men

  Saint Louis de Montfort (2016). “True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort”, p.25, Danka

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• Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?

  K.P. Yohannan

  Christianity, Christ, Obedience

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• I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.

  Charlie Munger

  Understanding, Gold, Hoarding

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• If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that conversion is simply something that anyone can choose at any time, then I'm concerned that you'll think of evangelism as nothing more than a sales job where the prospect is to be won over to sign on the dotted line by praying a prayer, followed by an assurance that he is the proud owner of salvation.

  Mark Dever

  Jobs, Prayer, Thinking

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• It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Leadership, School, Ethics

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• Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

  Robyn Carr

  Struggle, Suffering

  Robyn Carr (2014). “Forbidden Falls”, p.261, Harlequin

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• Change is a given; growth, however, is optional.

  Orrin Woodward

  Growth, Given

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2015

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• The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

  James Finn Garner

  Lifestyle, Emperor, Clothings

  James Finn Garner (2011). “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories”, p.9, Souvenir Press

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• Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

  Van Jones

  Keys, Civilization, Republic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think what Mr. Trump has made clear is that he would not undertake optional wars, what I have called wars of choice, a la, say Iraq in 2003 or Libya, for the purposes of transforming another country. It's not clear whether Hillary Clinton, if she were to have the opportunity, would do such a thing again or whether she would have taken a - the lesson from both Iraq and Libya that we ought not to be undertaking those kinds of wars of choice.

  Richard N. Haass

  Country, War, Taken

  "Examining The Foreign Policy Outlook Of Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

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• God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!

  C. S. Lewis

  Extras, Absolutes

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• Everything is optional.
  Somethings are illegal.
  And some things are really gross.

  Craig Benzine

  Illegal, Gross

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• My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

  Bram Cohen

  Simple, Python, Support

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• Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Reconciliation

  Lysa TerKeurst (2012). “Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions”, p.43, Thomas Nelson

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• Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

  Marcia Angell

  Illness And Death, Patient, Approach

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• I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is optional for me; shopping at a chemist store is a must.

  Kajol

  Fashion, Shopping, Clothes

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• Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Shopping, America

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