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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
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Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?
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The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.
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It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.
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Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
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Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.
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Refuse the evil, and choose the good. [Isaiah 7:15]
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I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. [Deuteronomy 30:19]
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Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.
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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
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Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
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You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose
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Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
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You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
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Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us --ah! what a dream, to live in that! --the other stifles us at the first breath.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
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I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.
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Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.
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It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
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Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
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It is not something I must do but something I want to do
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You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.
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He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
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Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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The key to your universe is that you can choose.
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The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
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You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.
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It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
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He that cannot decidedly say, No, when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
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You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.
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It is always your next move.
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Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.
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Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
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If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
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We do pretty much whatever we want to.
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Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
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Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.
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You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?
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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
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Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. [The Circle is Sacred]
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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
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A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my spaceship and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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Choose your love, Love your choice.
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Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
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The difficulty in life is the choice.
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When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.
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It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millenium.
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We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.
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To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
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The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them -- no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.
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