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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps."

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Abigail Disney Filmmaker
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"It's powerfully important for me as a pro-choice person and person who supports Planned Parenthood to have Rob accept me as not a baby-killing horrible person. That's actually a massive step away from his original position, and he's taking a lot of heat in his world just for being my friend, just for hanging around with me."

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
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"My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design."

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Epictetus Philosopher
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"No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?"

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Epictetus Philosopher
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"I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?"

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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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"I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible."

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