100 Quotes About Choice

In life, there are many choices to be made. Some choices have a larger impact than others. When we have to make a choice, we’re looking for some help from the universe, from a higher power, or from a guiding thought. We want to know what choice will bring the most happiness and success Read more

And we want the world to know that we made the right choice. Here are some of the best quotes about making choices, both good and bad.

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I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me. Veronica Roth
I find the best way to love someone is not...
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I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves. Steve Maraboli
There comes a time in your life when you have...
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There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. Shannon L. Alder
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The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other. Osho
When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long...
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When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you. Shannon L. Alder
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is...
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Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. Roy T. Bennett
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and...
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Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. Roy T. Bennett
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You Are the Master of Your AttitudeYou 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. Roy T. Bennett
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You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny. Roy T. Bennett
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Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. Bill Gates
Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your...
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Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices. Roy T. Bennett
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I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you….. I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something? Shannon L. Alder
Changing is what people do when they have no options...
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Changing is what people do when they have no options left. Holly Black
Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort...
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Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone. Shannon L. Alder
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‎Today is a new day. It's a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the 'same crap, different day' lie! How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today! Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go. Steve Maraboli
Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions....
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Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today. Roy T. Bennett
Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.
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Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible. Ally Condie
Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns...
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Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns with your core values in the most purposeful way possible. Roy T. Bennett
It's up to you today to start making healthy choices....
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It's up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind. Steve Maraboli
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Attitude is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, money, circumstances, than failures and success, than what other people think, say, or do. It is more important than appearance, ability, or skill. It will make or break a business, a home, a friendship, an organization. The remarkable thing is I have a choice every day of what my attitude will be. I cannot change my past. I cannot change the actions of others. I cannot change the inevitable. The only thing I can change is attitude. Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. . Charles R. Swindoll
You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to...
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You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you. Roy T. Bennett
To stay or to go, it amounted to the same...
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To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing. Albert Camus
We are the sum total of the decisions we have...
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We are the sum total of the decisions we have made. E.a. Bucchianeri
Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with...
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Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others. Shannon L. Alder
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Dear Child, Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and ability to get away with things. Travel past them because they don't understand who they have become and never will. These type of people feel justified in revenge and will never learn mercy or forgiveness because they live by comparison. They are the people that don't care about anyone, other than who is making them feel confident. They don’t understand that their deity is not rejoicing with them because of their actions, rather he is trying to free them from their insecurities, by softening their heart. They rather put out your light than find their own. They don't have the ability to see beyond the false sense of happiness they get from destroying others. You know what happiness is and it isn’t this. Don’t see their success as their deliverance. It is a mask of vindication which has no audience, other than their own kind. They have joined countless others that call themselves “survivors”. They believe that they are entitled to win because life didn’t go as planned for them. You are not like them. You were not meant to stay in hell and follow their belief system. You were bound for greatness. You were born to help them by leading. Rise up and be the light home. You were given the gift to see the truth. They will have an army of people that are like them and you are going to feel alone. However, your family in heaven stands beside you now. They are your strength and as countless as the stars. It is time to let go! Love, Your Guardian Angel. Shannon L. Alder
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Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past. Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something...
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Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow. Cedric Nye
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The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway. Audrey Niffenegger
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There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul. Neal A. Maxwell
Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most...
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Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word. Steve Maraboli
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God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Evil demons dwelling in underworlds, Gods sitting on-high, angels battling and protecting. We have become so wrapped up in these stories, and in the in-fighting between the different religions, that the reality of the matter has gone unseen and unresolved. We–humanity–must move out of this adolescence, put down the fairy tales, and take responsibility for our actions. There is no devil to blame, and there is no God to plead to. There is simply you and the choices you make each day–choices that will either make you a force of good in this world or an ill-presence. People are the evil in this world, and likewise we are the divine. “Evil”–all that is detrimental to humanity–has come about as a result of poor choices and, by the same hand, the divine–the immortal goodness–endures as a result of loving, compassionate choices. Heaven is created here–on this earth–by a community of compassionate people, and Hell is created here–on this earth–by a community of greedy, self-centered, apathetic people. Our small choices define the greater picture. L.M. Browning
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My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action. Shannon L. Alder
Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
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Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. Roy T. Bennett
Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to...
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Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first. Shannon L. Alder
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To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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It makes no sense to compare yourself with others because there will always be better & worse people than you out there. Each person has his own path to make. You are where you are now. Could you reach for the stars & have everything you want? realistically no. You may not win Olympic Gold in London 2012 , or be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company etc but you most definitely have the capacity to make YOUR life as the Masterpiece it could really be. The choice is yours.. Pablo
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To be 100% at all times is like a mirage in the desert of frustration. Enjoy your conquest and rest your mind. This will never be in vain. Unknown
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It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Eventually, it boils down to two choices — do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I want to experience it through suffering? That’s all there is to it. And since each person eventually works their way toward the realization that conscious expansion can happen through joy rather than suffering — enlightenment is a natural byproduct. Alaric Hutchinson
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The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice and by design. T.F. Hodge
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The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice or by design. T.F. Hodge
I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing...
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I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why...
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Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely Sunday Adelaja
I'm in a hole because at some point I found...
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I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this will depend on whether I realize that some things go together and some things don’t no matter how hard you try. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up. Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is difficult to make the right choice if you...
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It is difficult to make the right choice if you fear choosing wrongly. Roy T. Bennett
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The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones. Roy T. Bennett
If you always do what is easy and choose the...
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If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones. Roy Bennett
It is not as much about who you used to...
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It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be. Sanhita Baruah
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When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, “I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me! . Shannon L. Alder
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Your most important “want” should be the one you can control! Shannon L. Alder
Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving...
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Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving up on the obstacles God has put before you. Some of the most magical things he can bring us require faith and a lot of planning. Shannon L. Alder
People don't get to choose their family, but if you...
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People don't get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose - that's happiness. Lina Dimitrova
The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
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The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude. AuliqIce
Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored,...
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Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion. AuliqIce
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the...
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Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living. AuliqIce
For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each...
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For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each moment offers life. AuliqIce
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People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. choices. When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie. Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty! . Vera Nazarian
With the need for the self in the time of...
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With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair. Roman Payne
If where we are now and whatever we are going...
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If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons. Bamigboye Olurotimi
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I don't know about homeless, but I'm never going to let you be hopeless. Or loveless. To be heartless however, well, that is your choice to make. Melita Tessy
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18. Your life is before you. Be careful of the choices you make now that you could regret later. This regret is the subject of an old poem whose author has been forgotten. I hope you’ll never have reason to apply it to yourself. Across the fields of yesterday, He sometimes comes to me A little lad just back from play– The boy I used to be. He looks at me so wistfully When once he’s crept within; It is as if he hoped to see The man I might have been. James C. Dobson
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Life is a temporary condition, Henry. And it's uncertain. That's why you have to seize chances when you find them. Pursue what you want. Take risks. Live, love...all of it. Every last one of us is going to die, but if we don't live as we truly want, if we're not with the one we want to be with, we're dead already. Martha Brockenbrough
Silence is a lie that screams at the light.
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Silence is a lie that screams at the light. Shannon L. Alder
Most of us cling to life as if our existence...
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Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Success is a choice, not an option.
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Success is a choice, not an option. Debasish Mridha
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Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty. Shannon L. Alder
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I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through the darkness for others. I write to be seen and heard. I write to be near those I love. I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper. I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear. I write past the embarrassment of exposure. I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal. I write myself out of nightmares. I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings. I write to remember. I write knowing conversations don’t always take place. I write because speaking can’t be reread. I write to sooth a mind that races. I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand. I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide. I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long. I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be. I write to provide a legacy. I write to make sense out of senselessness. I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding. I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers. I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time. I write because God loves stories. I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on. Shannon L. Alder
Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given...
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Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential. Shannon L. Alder
Every game is winnable if you change your mind about...
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Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table. Shannon L. Alder
The choice to make good choices is the best choice...
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The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose. Ryan Lilly
When our desire for truth outweighs our fear of change,...
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When our desire for truth outweighs our fear of change, we make choices that serve an open heart rather than a closed mind. Scott Stabile
To be too knowing is a downfall.
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To be too knowing is a downfall. Laura Linney
If you know what the treasure of time is worth,...
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If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually be able to convert your time into any product you want. Sunday Adelaja
The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly...
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The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding. Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when...
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You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice. Shannon L. Alder
The courage to ask question is a daring act.
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The courage to ask question is a daring act. Lailah Gifty Akita
You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at...
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You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals. Steve Maraboli
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It's only out of reach when you choose to keep your feet flat on the floor. Unknown
Being broke is part of the journey. Staying broke is...
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Being broke is part of the journey. Staying broke is a fucking choice. Jaymin Shah
How do you choose your paths? Who says you do?...
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How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you. Toni Sorenson
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Parents like to think of themselves as Batmans, and of their children as Gotham Cities. Gotham City depends on Batman for its survival, and Batman delivers. This belief prevents parents from letting those young adults actually live their lives. Lukasz Laniecki
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There are so many lenses through which we look at life. There are so many lenses through which we perceive others. There are so many lenses through which we interpret things that happen to us in life and there are so many lenses that give us not just the different perspectives about life, but how we behave towards life and other people due to the reasons we have! Wealth influences our reasons and poverty directs our actions. Failure shows us a different way to behave and success gives us a different reason for action. . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on. Shannon L. Alder
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If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ? . Alex Morritt
Act as if it was, and it will be.
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Act as if it was, and it will be. Lailah Gifty Akita
Anytime, someone gives you advice, rethink if it will lead...
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Anytime, someone gives you advice, rethink if it will lead to personal progress. Lailah Gifty Akita
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It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are coping and not living. It is the false belief that there is a verse, quote, phrase or talk that will magically make you feel content, complete or not care. However, it doesn’t last longer than a few days, before your mind and heart goes back to what it wants. It is the moment you realize that you left without ever leaving. It is the moment you realize that fear, shame or guilt is the only thing standing in the way of the life God meant for you to live. . Shannon L. Alder
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Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes. A.J. Darkholme
Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close...
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Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home. Shannon L. Alder
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Listen, Google, ’ I will say, ‘both John and Paul are courting me. I like both of them, but in a different way, and it’s so hard to make up my mind. Given everything you know, what do you advise me to do?’ And Google will answer: ‘Well, I know you from the day you were born. I have read all your emails, recorded all your phone calls, and know your favourite films, your DNA and the entire history of your heart. I have exact data about each date you went on, and if you want, I can show you second-by-second graphs of your heart rate, blood pressure and sugar levels whenever you went on a date with John or Paul. If necessary, I can even provide you with accurate mathematical ranking of every sexual encounter you had with either of them. And naturally enough, I know them as well as I know you. Based on all this information, on my superb algorithms, and on decades’ worth of statistics about millions of relationships — I advise you to go with John, with an 87 per cent probability of being more satisfied with him in the long run. Indeed, I know you so well that I also know you don’t like this answer. Paul is much more handsome than John, and because you give external appearances too much weight, you secretly wanted me to say “Paul”. Looks matter, of course; but not as much as you think. Your biochemical algorithms — which evolved tens of thousands of years ago in the African savannah — give looks a weight of 35 per cent in their overall rating of potential mates. My algorithms — which are based on the most up-to-date studies and statistics — say that looks have only a 14 per cent impact on the long-term success of romantic relationships. So, even though I took Paul’s looks into account, I still tell you that you would be better off with John. Yuval Noah Harari
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Maybe, the question isn't who will look good by your side, who will make these days less dull, who will bring you the greatest financial benefit, who will be the one to bring you pleasure, who do you have the most in common with?.... Maybe, the question one should ask is who do you want at your side when you are dying? Shannon L. Alder
We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum...
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We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life. Steve Maraboli
They say faith is taking the first step when you...
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They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor. Shannon L. Alder
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We, at times, criticize ourselves for making immature choices. But if you think with real compassion you will find that those were the right choices at that point of time. Everything happens for a reason, maybe, that was destined. Anyway the best would be to accept whatever happened and move on. Latika Teotia
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Sorry” we all say “Sorry” for the wrong things we say and do. But do we always think about the people we love dearly who we say hurtful things to? I don’t think so because if we had think about it sorry wouldn't have become such a popular word today. Sometimes we say so much and act immature as adult. We didn't take the time to realize how much hurt and pain we put that individual in we never took the time to think of the reaction, the feelings and the consequence that we might have to face if what we do turns out to be a matter of life and death.! ! !. Napz Cherub Pellazo
Do not discern it differently -- pursue it differently.
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Do not discern it differently -- pursue it differently. Andy Harglesis
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Effective life management isn’t about finding more time to fill; it’s about recognizing you don’t have to do anything you do not choose to do. Hiding a choice behind a “have to” is irresponsible. Everything filling the white space in your life is there because you chose to put it there. We always have the power to say, “No.” We just need to be ready to live with the consequences. Joe Jordan