#choice

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. ↗

— Aeschylus

#effort #happiness #requires #times

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#being #choices #conversation #danger #engaging

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education. ↗

— Buzz Aldrin

#choices #comfort #education #health #immediate

I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#argument #choices #coming #consider #funny

I don't regret any of the decisions I've made in my life because with every choice I make, I learn something new. ↗

— Siva Kaneswaren

#decisions #learn #siva-kaneswaren #the-wanted #life

الحياة لعبة عنيفة هاذية . الحياة هى أن ترمى بنفسك من مظلة وأن تجازف , ان تسقط وتنهض من كبوتك الحياة . الحياة هى هى أن تتسلق الجبال لتحاكى الرغبة فى تسلق قمة النفس , وان لم تتوصل الى ذلك , فعليك أن تعيش قانعا ذليلا. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #life

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close. ↗

— José Saramago

#life

Let's live to regret this" (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3) ↗

— Martin Riggs

#life-living #regret #life

We often think that there is just one way to look at things - the way we always have. In fact, there are an infinite number of ways to look at most everything. An open mind allows for a multitude of perspectives from which to choose in any given moment. That suppleness of mind allows for true choice, and opens us to a whole new realm of possibility. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#open-mind #perspective #possibility #supple-mind #life

Ever wonder if you've done the right thing?" I asked him finally. "Frequently," he replied. "Legalities notwithstanding, to not wonder indicates a dangerous lack of awareness of the near-infinite array of choices presented by life. More tea? ↗

— Karen Lord

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