Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.
When you are standing at a crossroads in your life, realize that the greatest block that you can put in front of your Self is the idea that there is a ‘right’ choice.
Mastery, to whatever degree your circumstance allows, is determined by a handful of choices repeated daily.
The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the opposite.
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.
In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story....There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.
You would be surprised what you can do when you have no choice. That's what courage is, Xavion. It's the result of facing what you thought would consume you.
Who tries to sabotage my time and priority in life can never understand the sensible, best choices of my heart.
You don’t become the person you wish to become; you become the person you choose to become. True leadership does not come true wishes; it comes by choices!
And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...
People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.
If given the choice, I’d take five ones over a five-dollar bill, because women prefer men with lots of money.
Violence or Peace...it's up to humanity to pick the road it wants to walk down. The choice is completely ours!
In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back.
We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.
Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.
Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.
Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.
Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.
Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.
