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"Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour"
"One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice."
"Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response."
"Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices."
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
"I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice"
"I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard."
"Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make."
"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."
"I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices."
"Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning."
"In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice."
"Some changes we can control, but we find that many things are inseparably wired into the life we share in local, national, and global communities. For example, the healthy lifestyle you are determined to live and take to be a personal choice of which you have control, is heavily influenced and limited by the culture and industries of the communities you belong to."
"At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried with him and in which he tirelessly entered in the form of quotations what daily living and reading netted him in the way of "pearls" and "coral." On occasion he read from them aloud, showed them around like items from a choice and precious collection."
"If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar."
"No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you."
"This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?"
"Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen."
"Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice."
"It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all."
