3,997 Quotes About Choices

  • Author Paulo Coelho
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    Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

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  • Author Pema Chodron
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    We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

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  • Author Pema Chodron
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    Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.

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  • Author Pema Chodron
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    The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter, we have a choice: we can strengthen our resentment or our understanding and empathy. We can widen the gap between ourselves and others or lessen it.

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  • Author Quentin Crisp
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    Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

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