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81 " Deep down we all know that freedom is a choice, yet so many of us don’t feel that truth. "
― Beth Kempton , Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
82 " Happiness is a choice. It's not always easy, but is IS always worth it. "
83 " Success is a choice, not an option. "
84 " Have faith in fate. You don't have a choice. "
― Tapan Ghosh , Faceless
85 " Don't allow a negative experience effect your day for the worse. We may not have the power to control everything that happens to us, but we DO have a choice on how we react to it. "
86 " When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred. "
― Graham Greene , Orient Express
87 " My life will be what I make it," he told her. " That is true for all of us all the time. We cannot know what the future will bring or how the events of the future will make us feel. We cannot even plan and feel any certainty that our most carefully contrived plans will be put into effect. Could I have predicted what happened to me in the Peninsula? Could you have predicted what happened to you in Cornwall? But those things happened to us nevertheless. And they changed our plans and our dreams so radically that we both might have been excused for giving up, for never planning or dreaming again, for never living again. That too is a choice we all have to make. "
88 " There is no way to suppress change…not even in heaven; there is only a choice between a way of living which allows constant, if gradual alterations and a way of living that combines great control and cataclysmic upheavals. Those who panic and bind the trickster choose the latter path. It would be better to learn to play with him, better especially to develop skills (cultural, spiritual, artistic) that allow some commerce with accident, and some acceptance of the changes that contingency will always engender. "
― Lewis Hyde , Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
89 " Every person has felt pain,some deeper than others,some pain inmeasurable It is a choice to reframe that pain as power to create change~bns "
90 " It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that men do. This is a distortion and a travesty. Men have never sought to prove that they can do all the things women do. Why subject women to purely masculine criteria? Women can and ought to be judged by the criteria of femininity, for it is in their femininity that they participate in the human race. And femininity has its limitations. So has masculinity. That is what we’ve been talking about. To do this is not to do that. To be this is not to be that. To be a woman is not to be a man. To be married is not to be single - which may mean not to have a career. To marry this man is not to marry all the others. A choice is a limitation. "
― Elisabeth Elliot , Let Me Be a Woman
91 " God cares about our dietary choices. This should come as no surprise; you only have to read the first two chapters of Genesis to see God's concern for food. Humanity's first sin was disobedience manifested in a choice about eating. Adam and Eve were allowed to eat anything they wanted, except the one fruit they chose. And the New Testament makes clear that God cares about the most basic quotidian aspect of our lives. (Our God, after all, is the God who provides for the sparrows and numbers the hairs on our heads.) This God who is interested in how we speak, how we handle our money, how we carry our bodies - He is also interested in how we live with food. "
― Lauren F. Winner , Mudhouse Sabbath
92 " Happiness in marriage is a choice you have to make: fight for, protect, pursue. It doesn't happen to you, you make it happen. "
― Ngina Otiende , Blues to Bliss: Creating Your Happily-Ever-After In The Early Years
93 " To promise to abide by this legislation, so inimical to God, would mean forsaking the gospel and turning away from God's law. This is why Christians have a choice to make, either to trade in their loyalty to God for freedom from persecution, or to remain true to Christ and consequently run the risk of persecution. "
― , Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp
94 " Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable. "
― Barbara W. Tuchman , The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
95 " If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitate toward what was most familiar and comfortable. That was why leadership was needed. To do what was necessary rather than what was easy. "
― Michael J. Sullivan , Age of Myth (The Legends of the First Empire, #1)
96 " Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank. "
― Simon Sinek
97 " We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren’t told is that this isn’t a shortcoming of translation; it’s a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us. "
― Kamand Kojouri
98 " My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory. "
― , Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
99 " Evil is a choice one makes, not a natural state of being. "
― Morgan Rhodes , Rebel Spring (Falling Kingdoms, #2)
100 " Life is a choice. Choose to live and not merely survive. "
― Debasish Mridha
