"The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class. The decision is up to you."
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"My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings."
"The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with it. That is where free will comes in. Once having chosen, a man has to accept the consequences of his choice, and go on from there."
"I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to uphold me through the unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow."
"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice."
"Nothing happens until you decide."
"The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding."
"Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions."
"The choices that we make aren't always perfect but it's ok, It's part of the journey."
"Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices."
"People have material needs, but you don't need a deodorant for every different day of the week. You don't need four hundred varieties of mustard. This is what I call too many choices. There are too many choices in America."
"It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends."
"Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
"Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice."
"What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another."
"Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin."
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."
"I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!"
"The content of your # character is your # choice."
"The most important thing that I can share with you is the personal knowledge that decisions are not irrevocable, that choices do come back, sometimes in different forms and in different ways, but they can be remade."