I believe that this life is all we have. I don't believe in anything after this, so I think the choices we make here are so important and the relationships we choose are crucial, especially in that time when we are developing ourselves and we're becoming adults.
There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that - you simply don`t choose. You withdraw from choice and you become choiceless. Choicelessness is freedom. To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.
When you choose positive thoughts over negative ones, you are more likely to develop an optimistic outlook on life.
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
I have to choose songs that represent my personality.
. . . . there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.
You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement.
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.
In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher!
With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.
Maybe that's when bad scripts are written, when you choose the theme first. I consider that I've something to say when I've thought of a person, a moment, a single beat of the heart, that I think is true and interesting, and therefore should be seen.
There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.
Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.
Choose to give your creative art priority over other things. You can do it.