Choices Quotes - Page 17

Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice.

The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.

I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.

Strong faith is not an emotion. It's a choice.

The source of creation is within you. You can be just a piece of flesh, or you can be the Creator himself - this is the choice and potential you have.

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless.

Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.

To have to hear a woman's voice, and start to make a choice just based on that, is difficult.

Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people it's better than where they are. For many it's a relief. From life, she said. A relief from life? Is that living? Some people don't have a choice. No and that's awful for them. Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair has truth to it.

The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?” James lifted an invisible sword. “‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like my dad.” Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him. “Got a problem with that?” “No,” said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. “If you’d rather be brawny than brainy —” “Where’re you hoping to go, seeing as you’re neither?” interjected Sirius.

The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

I have the power of choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can I love right now?

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.