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"We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity."
"When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses."
"It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray."
"You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions."
"The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it."
"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
"Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck."
"Don't be so fond of what you planned that somehow to change it seems like a violation of your own choice and wisdom. It's just the opposite."
"And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win."
"Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes."
"When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist."
"A woman decides about her body and her God is her business. Women who are pro-life can be just a good a Christian as a woman who is pro-choice and vice versa. You can be a good Christian and be pro-life. You can be a good Christian and be pro-choice."
"Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity."
"Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice."
"The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering."
"Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices."
"Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control"
"Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship."
"The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve."
"You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice."
