You Choose Quotes - Page 2

• It's about the choices you've just made, and the ones you're about to make; it's about the things you choose to say - today. It's about what you're gonna do after you finish reading this.

  Mike Dooley

  Inspirational, Fear, Reading

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• Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Inspirational, Life, Choices

  "Fictional character: Soothsayer". "Kung Fu Panda 2", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• You are free to choose, even if you choose not to.

  Wes Fesler

  Choices, Ifs

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• But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

  John Green

  Mean, Roots, Long

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• Happiness is what you choose to remember.

  Jodi Picoult

  Remember

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• Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life Is Short, Thinking, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.98, Penguin

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• Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Heart, Color, Your Favorite

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Miles Between”, p.145, Macmillan

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• In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Emotional, Mirrors, Choices

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• I learned from you that I do not crumble. I learned that strength is somthing you choose.

  Miley Cyrus

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• A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available. What you choose will depend on how you see things: yourself, your work, your right to express taste and desire and personality, your understanding of the love of God as expressed in His creation and order and harmony.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Order, People, Choices

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• If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

  J. K. Rowling

  Powerful, Reality, Voice

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• The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Truth Is

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Diary”, p.177, Random House

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• Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Mean, Sleep

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• You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.

  Hermann Hesse

  Lying, Mean, Reality

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan

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• It's the family you choose that counts.

  Andrew Vachss

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• People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Stupid, Ignorance, People

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• You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Color, Sock

  "Gary Oldman: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

  Susan Orlean

  Choices, Wish, Doe

  "Bootless" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

  Suze Orman

  Teacher, Money, Powerful

  Twitter post from May 10, 2016

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• Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

  Joy Page

  Way, Default, Manifest

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• I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Doubt, Doe, Care

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• One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The pictures in the anatomy atlas did not show nail polish", she wrote. "Did you choose the color? Did you think that I would see it? I wanted to tell you about the inside of your hands. I want you to know you are always there when I see patients. When I palpate an abdomen, yours are the organs I imagine. When I listen to a heart, I recall holding your heart.

  Mary Roach

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

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• If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

  Jodi Picoult

  May, Expecting, Ready

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Work, Thinking, Want

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• Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

  China Mieville

  Art, Together, Humans

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