Choices Quotes - Page 21

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Life is the sum of your choices.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. I understood that there were many kinds of of sanctity and that each soul was free to respond to the approaches of Our Lord and to do little or much for Him - in other words,to make a choice among the sacrifices He demands.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

You make a new life by making new choices.

At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -"involuntary deprogramming" became the choice of some families as a last resort.

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.

In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

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.

You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.

Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times. Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life.