#choosing

Happiness doesn't have to be chased...it merely has to be chosen. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#chasing #choosing-happiness #happiness #happy #positive-thinking

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#actually #becomes #choosing #close #experience

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted. ↗

— Ira Glasser

#cannot #ceremony #choosing #forced #liberty

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. ↗

— Thomas Gold

#another #been #being #burned #choosing

We may know our true purpose in life, because we may choose our purpose in life. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#life-decisions #purpose-in-life #life

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#had #i #men #relationships #think

I am choosing to flow with the current of life rather than lying in a tide pool experiencing the same things again and again. ↗

— Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem

#choice #choosing #change

When everyone feels free to tell you the truth, respect for you dwindles… A wise prince should take another course: choose wise men for your advisors, and allow only them the liberty of speaking the truth to the prince, and only on matters about which you ask, and nothing else. But you should question them about everything, listen patiently to their opinions, then form your own conclusions later. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#men

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#islam #political #political statement #spiritual #statement

In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#build #children #choosing #compatibility #core