Our Choices Quotes - Page 2

• Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make

  Louise Penny

  Powerful, Simple, People

  Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.76, Macmillan

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• I got to give mom credit for how she handled it.She didn't try to pry and get all the details. All she said was that I should try to do "the right thing" because it's our choices that make us who we are. I figure that's pretty decent advice. But I'm still not 100% sure what I'm going to do tomorrow.

  Jeff Kinney

  Mom, Giving, Advice

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• Yeah, but our choices are limited. We choose from a list that they chose for us." She said. "Well, Choices are supposed to be limited. That's life" I snapped

  Lauren Oliver

  Choices, Lists, Yeah

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• We’re products of our choices.

  Susane Colasanti

  Choices, Products

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.103, Penguin

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• Love isn't logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us. Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

  Susane Colasanti

  Choices, Get Better, Sometimes

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• Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

  Jeff Kinney

  Choices, Who We Are

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”, p.189, Abrams

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• In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Teaching, Responsibility

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.

  Brandon Mull

  Reality, Giving, Choices

  Brandon Mull (2014). “Chasing the Prophecy”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• We're impacted by all the intersections of our identities and those then are reflected on what our choices are.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Choices, Identity, Intersections

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Games, Choices

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 25, 2017

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• Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved. But among ends that can be achieved our choice must be decided by other than purely scientific considerations. If a man were to say, "I hate the human race, and I think it would be a good thing if it were exterminated," we could say, "Well, my dear sir, let us begin the process with you." But this is hardly argument, and no amount of science could prove such a man mistaken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Mistake, Science

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• Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

  David Suzuki

  Nature, Government, Community

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• Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

  Michael Ventura

  Evil, Choices

  Michael Ventura (1994). “The Zoo where You're Fed to God: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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• Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

  Richard Bach

  Funny, Beautiful, Wise

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• In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge

  Zoe Weil

  Mean, Thoughtful, Asking Questions

  Zoe Weil (2009). “Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism - free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Rights, Safety

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• Our choices determine our destiny

  A. R. Bernard

  Destiny, Choices, Determine

  A. R. Bernard (2016). “Four Things Women Want from a Man”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another of God's creative principles: that humanity has free will. What that means is that in any given moment, it is our choice whether we move toward love or retreat from it. What is not love is fear. But in the larger scheme of things, there is a limit past which lovelessness cannot remain. Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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• We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let's take the next impossible, do it with joy and get it finished with and create a world free from poverty. Let us create the world of our choice.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Choices, Joy, Colonialism

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• We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

  Bill W.

  Inspirational, Recovery, Choices

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• In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

  C. S. Lewis

  Animal, Choices, Pet

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• I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.

  Adrienne Rich

  Life, Respect, Believe

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• We live in a self-organizing and self-correcting universe. For every problem, there is a potentially miraculous solution. A closed heart deflects the miracle, while an open heart brings it forth....In every moment, we make a choice between the heavenly awareness of our connection to all living things, or the hell of the delusion that we are separate and alone. The mind will manufacture according to our choice; whichever we choose, we will seem to experience.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Self, Choices

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• When we choose to follow Christ in faith rather than choosing another path out of fear, we are blessed with a consequence that is consistent with our choice.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Blessed, Choices, Path

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• ...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

  Emily Giffin

  Commitment, Love Is, Ties

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.351, Macmillan

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