“People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.” — Jane Rule, Lesbian Images
Tag: choices
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“Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s.” — Mary Schmich, “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young,” Chicago Tribune (1997-06-01)
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“For whatever we do, even whatever we do not do prevents us from doing its opposite. Acts demolish their alternatives.” — James Salter, Light Years
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“Our lives are but a sequence of accidents—a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.” — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
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“It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow
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“Your choices determine the lies you tell yourself.” — Yahooey, Allow Me to Introduce Myself
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“I had as many ideas as I have now, only I did not know how to choose from among them those that belonged to my life.” — William Butler Yeats, Reveries over Childhood and Youth
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“His manners are somewhat blunt and odd, and he is altogether out of the common road, without having chosen a better path.” — Frances Burney, A learned man on Evelina
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“Today everyone is a consumer and has to pick from the same selection of goods as everyone else; and because of this people now define their personalities by how good their taste is, or how clever, or how obscure, or how ironic their choices are.” — David McRaney, You Are Not So Smart
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“Just because you are lucky does not mean you make good choices.” — Viggo Mortensen, Euronews (2014-12-11)