Our Choices Quotes - Page 7

• One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.

  Brené Brown

  Judging, Choices, World

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• Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.

  Joyce Meyer

  Confidence, Mean, Choices

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “Eat the Cookie...Buy the Shoes: Giving Yourself Permission to Lighten Up”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

  Ayn Rand

  Change, Life Changing, Choices

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• The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Confidence

  "A Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  Abraham Flexner

  Education, Peace, Money

  Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

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• From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

  David Simon

  Spiritual, Attachment, Expression

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.28, Health Communications, Inc.

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• We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

  Melody Beattie

  Choices, Consequence

  Melody Beattie (2009). “Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more responsible for our choices in a world where people "call evil good, and good evil." We do not choose wisely if we use our agency in opposition to God's will or to priesthood counsel. Tomorrow's blessings and opportunities depend on the choices we make today.

  James E. Faust

  Blessing, Opportunity, Agency

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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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• Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm. Free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. Our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own.

  Camille Paglia

  Drama, Mirrors, Cells

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• I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Practice, People

  "What works: Common sense solutions for a stronger America" by Cal Thomas, www.foxnews.com. April 8, 2014.

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• We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

  James C. Collins

  Mistake, Choices, Defeat

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• The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Fun, Laughter, Philosophy

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• Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

  Warren Farrell

  Choices, Partners, Statements

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.

  Charles A. Reich

  Choices, Machines, Guides

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the right to marry the individual of our choice; the right to serve in the military to defend our country; and the right to a job based solely on our own qualifications. I acknowledge that this is an agenda, but I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

  Barney Frank

  Country, Jobs, Military

  Barney Frank's Statement on the Inclusion of people who are Transgender in Antidiscrimination Protection Legislation, March 2008.

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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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• 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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• 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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• [Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Choices, Moral

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• I want characters to have voices that feel authentic, unique, honest, fresh and original - all at once. Part of that authenticity is evoking genuine emotion across life - the sadness, passion, love, sense of loss, missed opportunities, and confusion even. All of this helps us realize that our choices do impact the lives that we eventually lead.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Sadness, Passion

  "Book Talk - Nicholas Sparks on Telling Stories Through Text, Film". www.reuters.com. October 10, 2013.

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• Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

  Aung San

  Rights, Safety, Choices

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• Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities-yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings. What are we going to call good? What are we going to call bad? Good or bad is never our choice, or even the issue.

  Steve Hagen

  Blessing, Issues, Choices

  Steve Hagen (2011). “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, p.47, Tuttle Publishing

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• Women have to make a living. We don't live in a wealthy world where we even have a choice. We're losing our choice of whether or not we need to work. If we want to work, we obviously should work and have that choice, but a lot of women can't even get to the word "want." They need to work. And it's great to see women who needed to work and found a way to become a firefighter or a steel worker. That, to me, is very exciting.

  Marlo Thomas

  Firefighter, Choices, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.

  Matthew Scully

  Dog, Animal, Voice

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