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"Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a life, but agreement between ideals, aspirations and deeds is key to a life of peace, happiness and success."
"Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything."
"If have the choice, to play or not play, I would rather be in there, ... But I appreciate Willie calling me in and being concerned."
"There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can."
"The basis of all choice in manifestation is Loving Yourself. This is the start and the finish to all good things that you are looking for."
"I equals all of the ifs added up over time. The ifs, those are the possibilities; that's infinite for all of us. Every day there are just millions of them. Time, that's finite for each of us; there is no question there. Maybe if you divide choices by the amount of time you have, the real I can emerge, depending upon those choices."
"Multi-Choice question: My dishwasher is: efficient; hilarious."
"I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life's journey in the manner of my choice."
"Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a particular delight. Intoxicated, she took less care for him than usual; abandoned and oblivious to all but her own pleasure, she would rake him, bite him - and beg him to serve her so, as well. He loved the feeling of power in it, the tantalizing choice between joining her at once in animal lust, or of holding himself-for a time- in check, so as to drive her at his whim."
"Every moment is a moment of choice-to feel powerless or powerful."
"You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it."
"When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy," when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes."
"The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant."
"Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past."
"If we suspend judgment and look to how we can make conscious choices to uplift the situation, we can be sure that we are doing all we can to attract a happier and more harmonious outcome."
"The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices."
"The choices you make today design your future"
"Take responsibility for making conscious choices."
"Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education."
"I’ve chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice –are we, in John Adams’ phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?"
