Our Choices Quotes - Page 5

• Its all spirit and its all connected...Our choice is to live out of harmony with spiritual ways or in harmony with spiritual ways. Everything is spiritual.

  William Commanda

  Spiritual, Choices, Way

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• In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Choices, God Love, Cases

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• In all things and in all ways, choice impacts virtually every element of our life. It bears repeating that even those things which seem out of reach of our choice are governed by how we choose to perceive them.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Taken, Impact, Choices

  Jonathan Huie, Mary Anne Radmacher (2009). “Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad”, p.147, Conari Press

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• To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.

  Amartya Sen

  Eye, Assessment, Justice

  Amartya Sen (2009). “The Idea of Justice”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

  Deborah Tall

  Powerful, Dwelling, Choices

  Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.77, Syracuse University Press

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• I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Thinking, Choices, Decision

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• Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Sacrifice, Simple

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• Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

  Jim Wallis

  Choices, Cynicism

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• Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Father, Government

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God.

  David F. Wells

  Choices, Who We Are, Sinfulness

  David F. Wells (2008). “The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World”, p.167, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.

  Glennon Melton

  Meaningful, Choices, Advice

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• Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Our World, Goal

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• The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Journey, Destiny

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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• Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.

  Nadya Suleman

  Believe, Choices, Our Actions

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• There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don’t carry weight anymore.

  Penelope Douglas

  Choices, Weight, Blame

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• Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare, people die.

  Annabel Park

  Cutting, People, Choices

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• The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Order, Choices

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

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• As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.

  David Deida

  Choices, Bird, Feelings

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• Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

  Aristotle

  Choices, Moral, Virtue

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• When we do align with it, we thrive. And when we do not, we suffer. This is not "punishment." It is merely the Law of Cause and Effect. With each thought we think, we either align with universal love, or we disconnect ourselves from it. Whichever is our choice determines whether we then feel connected to, or disconnected, from our own true Selves.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Thinking, Self

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 23, 2013

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• I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

  Thomas Nagel

  Responsibility, Choices, Determined

  Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.50, Oxford University Press

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• Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

  Stephen Covey

  Lynching, People, Choices

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.545, Mango Media Inc.

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• 'It only put me in Gryffindor,' said Harry in a defeated voice, 'because I asked not to go in Slytherin...' 'Exactly' said Dumbledore, beaming once more. 'Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.'

  J. K. Rowling

  Life Lesson, Voice, Choices

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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• There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

  Francois Mauriac

  Reading, Choices, Source

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• This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

  Dan Millman

  Teacher, School, Choices

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