"Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute."
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"To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions."
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"Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection."
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"Life is the result of all your choices."
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"Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect."
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"[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end."
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"Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice."
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"When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice"
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"A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality."
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"That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character."
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"I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life."
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"I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it."
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"Emotions are choices."
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"A sympathy in choice."
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"Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward."
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"And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd"
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"If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me."
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"To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock."
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"Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them."
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"We can use wealth, intelligence, education or health in harmony with our compassionate spiritual nature, or we can use them according to the selfish concerns of our particular egos. We have choices as human beings. We can be saints or we can be terrorists. We can be peaceful or we can be miserable. When we see everything in the world as God's sacred property, then we're seeing the spiritual potential, the spiritual substance, everywhere."
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