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1 " You have the freedom and the ability to decide what to do with your life, and that includes learning how to welcome happiness again. It's a conscious choice we each have to make, to emerge from the embers of profound loss and hopelessness, to become the fire that warms us, lights our path, all of it. We can embody that warmth and light. "
― Becca Vry , Musings: An Argyle Empire Anthology
2 " The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written. Things that made for a normal life—like a daily routine that followed the sun—took a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn’t a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep. He would often awake with a new idea—as if he’d merely been on a break and not unconscious—and he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot’s seat in a ship that could go anywhere. "
3 " The self-actualization process for a man is a conscious choice of a life goal and the way to achieve it "
4 " Peace is a conscious choice. "
― John Denver
5 " Acceptance is a conscious choice to receive your spouse as God made him or her. "
― Sue Detweiler , 9 Traits of a Life Giving Marriage: How to Build a Relationship That Lasts
6 " The decision to be positive is not one that disregards or belittles the sadness that exists. It is rather a conscious choice to focus on the good and to cultivate happiness--genuine happiness. Happiness is not a limited resource. And when we devote our energy and time to trivial matters, and choose to stress over things that ultimately are insignificant. From that point, we perpetuate our own sadness, and we lose sight of the things that really make us happy and rationalize our way out of doing amazing things. "
7 " Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say. "
― Chris Matakas , My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
8 " I had to take a step of faith and look beyond my circumstances. I had to make a conscious choice to trust Him. "
9 " Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one’s mindset can be the wellspring of tolerance, mercy, and compassion. "
― Brent Green
10 " No one can control their results. We can, however, control our attitude. When we practise compassion, it is most effective when it is unconditional and free from seeking an outcome – compassion is a matter of choice rather than a self-seeking action. And so, if we assist another human being from a place of presence and compassion, we are not looking to find our happiness off the back of others’ suffering. Nor are we trying to control them. Compassion is a conscious choice rather than an emotional knee-jerk reaction. "
― Christopher Dines , The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
11 " What is success? What does it mean that someone is successful? Success can be different things to different people. For us being successful is a conscious choice to be oneself. Success does not have to be dependent on any external circumstances and rules dictated by the mainstream society. It does not matter where we live and what we possess. When we love and support ourselves unconditionally choosing to be ourselves as much as we can, this is for us, Being Successful. "
― Raphael Zernoff
12 " The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication. It’s what we know and pass on to our own children. We either become our childhood or we make a conscious choice to change it. "
― Kristen Crockett , The Gift of Past Relationships
13 " Happiness is a conscious choice we make for ourselves. It has to come from within. "
― Beau Sides , Unseen Tears: The Challenges of Orphans and Orphanages in China
14 " it (love) must be a conscious choice and not an emotional response (Matthew 5:46). "
― Michael DiMarco , Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do For Love And How To Avoid Them
15 " Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development. "
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16 " Bottom lines are addictive behaviours that we make a conscious choice not to repeat. For example, a recovering cocaine addict would create a bottom line that they will not use a mind- or mood-altering substance to deliberately get high. A recovering sex addict might create a bottom line not to watch pornography or not to have sex without any emotional or spiritual connection. Bottom lines are a symbol of our intentions and are very useful at a practical level to address addictions. In many recovery communities, twelve-step fellowships and addiction rehabs, there is also a concept called ‘top lines’. "
17 " Happiness is a conscious choice not an automatic response. "
