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Choice(s)

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.--Paula Poundstone
All through life we must keep choosing. Destiny hangs on "yes" and "no." As we look back, it is to wonder what would have happened if we had gone the other way when the road forked.--Anonymous ( Philadelphia Ledger, 1926)
The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)
Choice of attention--to pay attention to this and ignore that--is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both choices man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.--W. H. Allen
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.--W.J. Bryant
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: 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.--Groucho Marx
Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine March 18, 2003)
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.--John Kenneth Galbraith
For the most part, most people most often choose comfort--the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)
Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece--by thought, choice, courage and determination.-H. Jackson Brown
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.--Judith M. Knowlton
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.--Robert Fritz
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.--Eleanor Roosevelt
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.--J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.--Madeleine L'Engle (Walking on Water)
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us. Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing--sickness, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.--Henri Nouwen
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life and you must accept regret.--Henri Frederic Amiel
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.--Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ("Moral Ambiguity" Off Center)
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.--Eleanor Roosevelt
Our greatest power is the power of choice; our greatest freedom lies in the exercise of our power of choice.--William Curtis
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.--Willa A. Foster (Bits & Pieces)
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.--Charles Swindoll
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie--for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance--will instantly vitiate the effect.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.--Anonymous
There are three ways you can get to the top of a tree: 1) sit on an acorn 2) make friends with a bird 3) climb it.--Anonymous
To choose is also to begin.--Starhawk (Dreaming the Dark)
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.--Arbie M. Dale
We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.--Carolyn Forche
We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.--Ernest Holmes
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.--Kahlil Gibran
We have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.--Mildred D. Taylor
We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by them.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.--Robert F. Bennett