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• Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

  Andre Breton

  Steps, Greatest Gifts

  Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti (1997). “Anthology of Black Humor”, p.309, City Lights Books

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• With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wine, Drunk, Virtue

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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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• The sun shine comes, you see the shine you see the color, when night comes you the stars you see the dark the blooming moon you choose a star you follow the star it comes in your dreams you follow stars once a light bug dies you see a new star you follow the star your dreams come true.

  Demi Lovato

  Dream, Stars, Dark

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• There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

  Kris Radish

  Joy, Faces, Sun

  Kris Radish (2009). “The Shortest Distance Between Two Women”, p.235, Bantam

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• When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

  Philip Pullman

  Choices, Doing Nothing, Way

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• You are mine, Elena. If you choose to sleep in another bed, I will simply pick you up and bring you home.

  Nalini Singh

  Sleep, Home, Bed

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Play of Passion”, p.247, Penguin

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• You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.

  Juliet Marillier

  May, Path, Helpers

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.82, Macmillan

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• You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Graduation, Giving, Succeed

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• The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Son, Principles, Add

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• The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Views, Mind, Tragedy

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Mar 24, 2011

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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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• And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, People, Life Is

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.86, Penguin

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• Happiness is what you choose to remember.

  Jodi Picoult

  Remember

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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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• If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Doubt, World

  "The Call Of Earth". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1992.

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• Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down. You can't make someone your hero because of something you read on the internet. The internet is not a source of information it is a source of disinformation.

  Craig Ferguson

  Dream, Hero, Ideas

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• 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

  Love, Heartbreak, Choices

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.25, A&C Black

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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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• 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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• 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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• It's the family you choose that counts.

  Andrew Vachss

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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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