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"... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today."
"How one encounters reality is a choice."
"So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom."
"To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions."
"'It only put me in Gryffindor,' said Harry in a defeated voice, 'because I asked not to go in Slytherin...' 'Exactly' said Dumbledore, beaming once more. 'Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.'"
"We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy."
"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone."
"Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person's darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out."
"You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices."
"You are what you choose to identify with. You have the choice. A mouse raised by pigeons."
"If I find here and Now unacceptable, I have three choices: 1-Totally accept it. 2- Change it. 3-Remove myself from the situation. That is taking responsibility for my life."
"This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life."
"Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice."
"It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours."
"We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom."
"Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice."
"Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman."
"Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice."
"I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option."
