Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.
No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.
It's a messy business--being alive. But I'd rather have this short time with those I love than have an easy time. We forget about the things we saw that morning,and we choose to build a bigger sandcastle.
We have to actually choose a name," Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth, Let's choose executors and talk of wills
When caught under the weather of love, always choose the person who loves you unconditionally, and abandon the one who only loves you under favorable conditions.
It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen you, William Ore, you must also choose me.
Christmas, just like life itself - will become all that you choose or want it, to be.
But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.
In this section you will learn how to use the tools the way that I think you will choose to use them by default.
And you shouldn't choose to care about someone. There shouldn't be a time and a place for it. Either you do or you don't. Don't try.” He looks off. “There can be falseness in trying to do something that should come naturally to people.
By choosing to have a calm response to what seems negative you bring clarity and balance to your message.
When we choose to engage reality as the best each moment can be, we are shaping more positive experiences for others.
You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself.
And at the start of every new day, I still believed I could choose my own beginning, one that was scrubbed clean of everything past
Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!
If you wanted candles and romantic music, then you wouldn’t have chosen me.” “Maybe I didn’t choose,” she dared. “Maybe it just happened.
The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen. They are. The question is, when they do happen, how are we going to choose to look at them, contextualize them, and navigate them?
You're both living these lives you didn't choose to live in a world full of people telling you what that's supposed to mean. That's messed up.
Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.
