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• One ship sails East,
  And another West,
  By the self-same winds that blow,
  Tis the set of the sails
  And not the gales,
  That tells the way we go.

  Like the winds of the sea
  Are the waves of time,
  As we journey along through life,
  Tis the set of the soul,
  That determines the goal,
  And not the calm or the strife.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Topics in Goal, Success

  Tags in Choice, Choosing

• I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It’s been about two months since I’ve worked out. And I just don’t have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility, Procrastination, Choice, Choosing

• You must not expect anything from others. It’s you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it’s up to you — your own choices — what you get from others remains a present, a gift.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Expectations, Service

  Tags in Choice, Choosing

• All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

  Theodore Bikel

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Ethics, Arrogance, Strength, Choice, Choosing

• My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

  Elaine Maxwell

  Topics in Failure, Future, Success

  Tags in Responsibility, Duty, Choice, Choosing

• The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

  René Descartes

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Evil, Mind, Choice, Choosing

• Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Choice, Choosing

• Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

  Robert Coles

  Topics in Compromise, Confidence, Democracy, Leadership, Politics

  Tags in Government, Integrity/Individuality, Character, Judgment, Conscience, Courage, Choice, Choosing

• Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.

  Rachel Carson

  Topics in Humanity, Nature, Power

  Tags in Change/Growth, Choice, Choosing

• You can’t make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn’t made them wish they had.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Children, Power

  Tags in Authority, Communication, Choice, Choosing

• Reason is also choice.

  John Milton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Choice, Choosing

• When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Topics in Attitude, Commitment, Experience, Love

  Tags in Attention, Relationships, Choice, Choosing

• How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

  Barry Lopez

  Topics in Confusion, Life

  Tags in Ethics, Responsibility, Duty, Evil, Questions, Maturity, Choice, Choosing

• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility, Conscience, Difficulties, Choice, Choosing

• Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Meditation, Learning, Attention, Choice, Choosing

• When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Choice, Choosing

• Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them — and then, the opportunity to choose.

  C. Wright Mills

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Freedom, Choice, Choosing

• Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don’t want to believe that. But if you’re over age twenty-one, your life is what you’re making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.

  John C. Maxwell

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Change/Growth, Choice, Choosing

• Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.

  Frederick F. Flack

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Change/Growth, Choice, Choosing

• Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being “drawn toward.” Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one’s friends and enemies.

  Love creates righteousness, or justice, here on earth. To make love is to make justice. As advocates and activists for justice know, loving involves struggle, resistance, risk. People working today on behalf of women, blacks, lesbi*ns and gay men, the aging, the poor in this country and elsewhere know that making justice is not a warm, fuzzy experience. I think also that sexual lovers and good friends know that the most compelling relationships demand hard work, patience, and a willingness to endure tensions and anxiety in creating mutually empowering bonds.

  For this reason loving involves commitment. We are not automatic lovers of self, others, world, or God. Love does not just happen. We are not love machines, puppets on the strings of a deity called “love.” Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. Love is a conversion to humanity — a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life, rather than as an alien in the world or as a deity above the world, aloof and apart from human flesh.

  Carter Heyward

  Topics in Commitment, Justice, Love

  Tags in Relationships, Choice, Choosing