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"The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own."
"Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one."
"Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow."
"Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion."
"All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life."
"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World."
"There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close."
"To believe in your choice you don't need to prove that other people's choices are wrong."
"You have a choice. You don’t have to be a person who spreads negativity and lies for a living. You can do something good. You can be good. Let’s just make that choice and — it feels better."
"Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing."
"Being happy is the cornerstone of all that you are! Nothing is more important than that you feel good! And you have absolute and utter control about that because you can choose the thought that makes you worry or the thought that makes you happy; the things that thrill you, or the things that worry you. You have the choice in every moment."
"The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought."
"But those who chose to reject God during their lifetime on earth will be separated from him for eternity. This is not God's desire, but man's own choice. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ."
"Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance"
"Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become."
"We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it."
"Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded."
"Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice."
"True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us."
"I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose."
