"Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline". . . "It's easy. Incredibly easy. "
Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive. . . by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?
No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one.
Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.
I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing I am choosing to be with that person.
How could you feel worthless when God has honoured you by creating you and choosing you to be with Him, in this life and the next? You are worthy. You are worthy of love. You are worthy of respect. You haven't failed. You're beautiful. Only the beautiful can see beauty. Never doubt your beauty. Never doubt your worth. It's not about how much you make, your grades, what people say or think. It's about you and God. It's about your heart. The blinding beauty of your heart.
In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.
Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.
I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil.
Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. '
Choosing whom you love is the most political decision you can make.
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.
Whatever is the scariest is almost always what I end up choosing.