If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.

Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

The choices she’s made have left her without choice.

A person’s looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we’ve been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That’s the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

There is always a choice.” “You mean I could choose certain death?” “A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is...

A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing or to love the right person or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not...

This is about making a choice to have our civil rights acknowledged and respected and protected as any human being.

I don’t want to be told that it’s the people with power over us who are guilty, that we’re innocent slaves, that we’re not guilty because we’re not free. I am free! I’m building a Vernichtungslager; I have to answer to the people who’ll be gassed here. I can say “No”. There’s nothing can stop...

Fifty to 100 years ago, humans had no choice but to be active. Today, we have to choose to be active,

I believe you can prove everyone wrong, too, Victoria. Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.

My destiny plays with me in such a wayI feel I play with my destiny.

We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

There are many differing viewpoints on nature versus nurture, and there are those who believe that bad behavior can be excused and understood if a person doesn’t know better. The theory that someone who has been abused as a child will go on to abuse their own children, and so on, because they don’t know...

We don’t choose our wildest dreams. They choose us.

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

It’ll be more difficult to call somebody on the outside for the more choice assignments.

I’ve never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it’s my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.

That’s the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

Leave if you must. But leave when you are strong, not weak. Leaving should be a choice and not the only option.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

Between stimulus, or what happens to us or has ever happened to us, and our response, lies our power and freedom to choose. In those choices lie our growth and happiness.

And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradoxFor he is everything and nothingHero and foolPotent, helplessAnd with one word of truth or treacheryHe will save or damn the earthBecause he is mad and saneCold and passionateLost and found

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. I grapple with this because I’m a parent. And I think anybody who has children, you come to this realization, you know—what’ll it be? Alienated, cynical intellectual?...

Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness

Although goals are important, having a plan of action is vital to the success of those goals. Having a goal with no plan of action is like wanting to travel to a new destination without having a map.

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

It is highly probable that we choose our posture, not our problems.

This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, ‘souly’ for me…and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.

Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

I freely will the best choice, thus willing the same will

Most people’s greatest regret is not living the life they knew they could live.

Every step taken is the first of a new journey. Its up to me if I choose to contine walking or I might love it so much I will run.

My mother smiled. “I knew my baby wasn’t like that.”I looked at her. “Like what?””Like those awful people. Those awful dead people at that hospital.” She paused. “I knew you’d decide to be all right again.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

I choose to be with this person.

One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can’t be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability...

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I’ve studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

Our minds are information vacuums. Either we fill them with thoughts of our choosing or someone else will.

I didn’t have much choice. Their guy was right behind me and my defenseman went to the other side. You have to play the puck and take the penalty if it’s called. You can always kill the penalty.

We feel pretty embarrassed. But we have no choice but to keep pressing on.

We had a choice to make; we could either send our donations elsewhere or we could find people to help.

In this life I choose you.

Choice for consumers is coming to New Jersey. The question is will it be sooner or later. We have the ability, but we still need the authority, and under that scenario consumers lose because they’re forced to wait longer.

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.