Our Choices Quotes - Page 8

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

J. Michael Straczynski

Ideas, Choices, Tears

"From 'Moloch' To 'Superman Earth One Vol. 2': The J. Michael Straczynski Interview". Interview with Valerie Gallaher, www.mtv.com. November 12, 2012.

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You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No.'

Iyanla Vanzant

Choices, Care, Want

"Iyanla Vanzant Covers ESSENCE Magazine, Shares 10 Ways To ‘Claim Your Joy’ This Year". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2013.

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Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

Neale Donald Walsch

Choices, Survival, Literature

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In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.

Evgeny Morozov

Choices, Google, Three

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The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

Ann Rinaldi

Choices, Important, Life Is

Ann Rinaldi (2002). “Amelia's War”, p.259, Scholastic Inc.

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We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better.

Carol Matas

Hate, Evil, Choices

Carol Matas (1993). “Daniel's Story”, p.70, Scholastic Inc.

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To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry. I testify that such is possible.

Thomas S. Monson

Anger, Yield, Choices

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For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.

Audre Lorde

Real, Games, Differences

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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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‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and 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

Running, Caring, Government

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We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

Stephen Covey

Reality, People, Choices

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

Solomon Burke

Choices, Sometimes, Controversy

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Once you accept the fact that people have 'individual choices' and they're 'free' to make those choices. Free to make choices means without being influenced and I can't understand that at all. All of us are influenced in all our choices by the culture we live in, by our parents, and by the values that dominate. So, we're influenced. So there can't be free choices.

Jacque Fresco

Mean, Individual Choice, People

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As we interact with others, we can either be a person who is bringing out their best or pointing out their worst. Regardless, however, our choice is always more information about us than them.

Bill Crawford

Choices, Information, Worst

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We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.

Jeff Bezos

Choices, Stories

Jeff Bezos' Commencement Address at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, www.princeton.edu. May 30, 2010.

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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

Naomi Wolf

Mom, Mother, Jobs

"Naomi Wolf answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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Our choice, always, is to love and understand.

Ping Fu

Choices

Ping Fu (2012). “Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds”, p.172, Penguin UK

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It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

Peter Forsyth

Choices, Missionary, Missions

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Life is a matter of choice. Everything we manifest in our day to day lives is the direct result of our choices along the way. Each choice automatically creates a consequence. From our choices other people's lives are influenced for better or worse.

Dannion Brinkley

Inspirational, Life, People

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Therefore our choices need to be made carefully. Every single thing that one of us thinks says or does, impacts all the rest of humanity on one level or another.

Dannion Brinkley

Inspirational, Life, Thinking

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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.

Ibrahim Babangida

Choices, Fundamentals, Way

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Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on? This must be interesting only to the degree to which it informs us in this very present moment regarding our choices that we will make in the creation of our future.

Ralph Abraham

Evil, Interesting, Choices

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Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.

Joseph Addison

Life, Choices, Causes

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.473

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Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

Subcomandante Marcos

War, Choices, Dignity

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When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.

Cheri Huber

Attitude, Kindness, Acceptance

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