Just as courage is not absence of fear but rather the willingness to do what you want even though you’re afraid, morality is not the absence of desire to do wrong but rather the choice to do right despite your desire.
-Franklin Veaux, From Quora
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Whatever decision we think we are making is actually being made for us, because the decision is the end result of a thought and we have no control over the arising of the thought.
Ramesh Balsekar
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The bad news is that time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
-Micheal Altshuler, Motivational Speaker
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself.
-Walter Anderson
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When we can no longer change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
-Viktor E. Frankl
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I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
-Carl Jung
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We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight, persevere, and create a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our evaluation of it is a choice.
-Jacob Held
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Here is a story as told by Dr. Wayne Dyer
“If I were to squeeze an orange as hard as I could, what would come out?” I asked.
He looked at me like I was a little crazy and said, “Juice, of course.”
“Do you think apple juice could come out of it?”
“No!” he laughed.
“What about grapefruit juice?”
“No!”
“What would come out of it?”
“Orange juice, of course.”
“Why? Why when you squeeze an orange does orange juice come out?”
“Well, it’s an orange and that’s what’s inside.”I nodded. “Let’s assume that this orange isn’t an orange, but it’s you. And someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, says something you don’t like, offends you. And out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, fear. Why? The answer, as our young friend has told us, is because that’s what’s inside.”
It’s one of the great lessons of life. What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside. It doesn’t matter who does the squeezing—your mother, your brother, your children, your boss, the government. If someone says something about you that you don’t like, what comes out of you is what’s inside.
And what’s inside is up to you, it’s your choice.
When someone puts the pressure on you and out of you comes anything other than your best response, it’s because that’s what you’ve allowed to be inside.
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
-Anthony Robbins
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We choose our joys and sorrows, long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran
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You have brains in your head
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
In any direction you chooseYou’re on your own
And you know what you know
And you’re the only guy
Who’ll decide where to go-Dr. Seuss
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I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
-Emma Watson
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I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.
William M. Bulger
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Be a candle, or the night, Padawan: but choose!
Yoda to Whie Malreaux
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Light tomorrow with today.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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