Your choices define your actions; your actions define your life.
Have a choice, learn the process and then go for the success.
Not your degrees, but your choice, defines your intelligence.
But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.
We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.
For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.
It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, it is our choices.
When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made.
Your life is your choice, so make it worthwhile
If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.
If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots. Let me explain what I mean by this. If God eliminated evil by prog...
Freedom isn't an illusion; it's perfectly real in the context of sequential consciousness. Within the context of simultaneous consciousness, freedom is not meaningful, but neither is coercion; it's simply a different context, no more or less valid th...
Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or some other icon of unchurchness. The problem is that they have been only about themselves from the moment they could wail for their...
The path of the norm is the path of least resistance; it is the route we take when we're on auto-pilot and don't even realize we're following a course of action that we haven't consciously chosen. Most people who eat meat have no idea that they're be...
There Comes the Strangest Moment There comes the strangest moment in your life, when everything you thought before breaks free-- what you relied upon, as ground-rule and as rite looks upside down from how it used to be. Skin's gone pale, your brain i...
Things I learned from a man called “The Nazarene” 1- Being poor does not equal being miserable. 2- People will judge you, but their judgment should not define who you are. 3- Going against what others hold as true is not necessarily a bad thing. ...
In alien lands I keep the body Of ancient native rites and things: I gladly free a little birdie At celebration of the spring. I'm now free for consolation, And thankful to almighty Lord: At least, to one of his creations I've given freedom in this w...
It’s a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.
I got fat, and I decided to do something about it, so I got fatter.
