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"Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it."
"Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy."
"You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?"
"Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice."
"There's small choice in rotten apples."
"There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples."
"Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow."
"In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature."
"We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger."
"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
"If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here."
"What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear."
"I promise you, anybody given the choice of that kind of money or having to make a phone call to tell your dad that something like that has happened, it’s not worth it."
"Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be."
"We are the choices we have made."
"Food is my drug of choice."
"We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made."
"The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices."
"We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance."
"Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out."
