Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
Reality is not optional.
She's not my type,' Carter says. 'So what is your type?' 'Tall, skinny, black hair, blue eyes, freckly nose. Blue tinsel wig and snowflakes optional. ' 'Skinny?' I squeal. 'Definitely. Pretending to be shy, sensible and stand-offish when really you're mad about me. ' 'You sure about that?' 'No, but I'm hoping.
Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.
Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacker required.
Sometimes we forget that sin really is optional.
Reading is not optional.
Personal philosophy: Clothing optional
Survival is optional. No one has to change.
Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.
Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.
Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.
Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.
Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.
Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.
When it comes to success in business, an MBA degree is optional. But a GSD, which is only earned by Getting Stuff Done, is required.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
