I know it doesn't feel this way all the time, but we get to choose what we care about and what we spend our resources on. We choose what - or ideally whom - to lust after. We choose what to watch, what to like, what to build, how to spend the breaths that we've been alive. And the fact that many of our choices are unconscious - get that handbag, get that Starbucks, look at that Snooki - does not in any way make us less responsible for those choices. I'm happiest when I feel like I'm part of a community that helps me choose more intelligently and with greater empathy. And I, for one, like the choices we made this weekend.
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SIMON PEGG You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel l... SHAILENE WOODLEY We are what we are. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. PEGGY TONEY HORTON Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to... CRAIG GROESCHEL We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues. CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel. CAROL PLUM-UCCI We are all broken. It's what we choose to do with the pieces that matters. BLOODYANGEL ...it’s so awesome to be Human; we have His ability to feel, we can choose what we want to see bas... JAYENDRA PURI GOSWAMI Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, ch... ROBIN HOBB Shall we not recover ourselves? Shall we not redeem ourselves to one another? Shall we not restore t... L.M. BROWNING When we get a state, we will leave it to the people to choose. We believe that the people will choos... MAHMOUD RAMAHI Chewing tiger nut is good exercise for the mouth, i love its nutty taste SOTONYE ANGA And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but w... PATRICK NESS We don't have choices about when we feel it. But we do have choices about what we do with it. DEBORAH COX Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO We don't always get to choose what we love. SCOTT WESTERFELD Often, we do not know where our choices will take us. This is why the best choices are often made ba... LORETTA LYNCH Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our... LOUISE PENNY Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our... LOUISE PENNY The television thing is not what makes it big for us. What makes it big for us, and I say this for e... ERNEST HUNTER We had close to 30 pieces to choose from and it was more a desire to make an album that made a cohes... BRUCE COCKBURN We all are on the anvil of our destinies shaping and molding them into place.The shape it forms once... GARY F EVANS... The choices that are given to us always has the same ending. It is what we bring with us to the end ... NIRVIK PARAJULI That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible f... MADONNA Between the head and the heart is the voice, and our voice reflects our choices: the way we reconcil... SHREVE STOCKTON Choice, choices, choices! Choose rightly. Choose the things that brings you highest fulfillment. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA My life will be what I make it," he told her. "That is true for all of us all the time. We cannot kn... MARY BALOGH You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really re... SIDNEY MADWED Romance is like having to go through security at airports in order to get on the plane. BOBBY W. MILLER Many parents, you could offer all types of choices, and they're going to choose what is most conveni... JACK LAMB We won't be so caught up in Disneyland or gazing at the stars and things like that. We know what we ... JUSTIN BLALOCK We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would cho... HENRY B. EYRING I need to know what we think we might be able to get with our draft choices -- particularly our firs... CARL PETERSON We don't choose what we are, but we choose what we do. V.E. SCHWAB Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, an... BRANDON MULL Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing he... JODI PICOULT We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we... URSULA K. LE GUIN We must know that when we invite people into our lives, we are not just inviting people; but we are ... C. JOYBELL C. In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of o... JAMES E. FAUST
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