"You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable."
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"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
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"Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence."
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"We are our choices. Build yourself a great story."
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"I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation."
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"Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it."
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"Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception."
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"A human being is a deciding being."
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"Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world."
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"When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape."
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"One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety."
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"We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial."
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"You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity."
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"We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present."
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"Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables."
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"Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life."
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"Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way."
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"If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist."
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"When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his inner self... Prisoners in the world of object, they have no choice but to submit to the demands of matter! They are pressed down and crushed by external forces: fashion, the market, events, public opinion. Never in a whole lifetime do they recover their right mind!... What a pity!"
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"Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar."
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