Our Choices Quotes - Page 6

• Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.

  Marge Piercy

  Real, Struggle, Taken

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• Love is the essence of All That Is, no matter what we do here, we are met with love. We also feel how our choices were in alignment or out of alignment with that love. We all immediately ascend to the level that we achieved here, to the level of vibration of energy, of awareness, of that love.

  Suzanne Giesemann

  Love Is, Essence, Choices

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• How I wish we could all see the cost of our choices as clearly as a price tag on items in a store. If I know how much something is going to cost me, I make much wiser choices. But we have an enemy who schemes against us to keep the cost of dumb decisions concealed until it's too late.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Price Tag, Decision, Choices

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There are two ways to respond to the trials and tribulations of our present and past . . . 'Ain't it awful?' . . . or . . . 'Good information!' Our choice of responses will determine our experience of life.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Two, Choices

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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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• 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 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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• Well folks, what do you think? Here's our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps?

  Edge

  Thinking, Wwe, Giving

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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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• 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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• Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.

  Abbi Glines

  Love, Choices, Add

  Abbi Glines (2014). “One More Chance”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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

  Francois Mauriac

  Reading, Choices, Source

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• Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.

  Vince Aletti

  Artist, Doors, Choices

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• According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

  Leo Strauss

  Wise, Ignorance, Issues

  "Natural Right and History". Book by Leo Strauss, 1953.

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• To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.

  China Mieville

  Mean, Reality, Actions Have Consequences

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• Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Choices, Tasks, World

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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