#choosing

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. ↗

We attract what we're meant to because we're aware & self-empowered enough to choose most of the time. Other times we have lessons to learn ↗

— Jay Woodman

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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people. ↗

— Kate Bush

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But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist. ↗

— Tony Lema

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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Because after all… You don't choose your life, your life chooses you ↗

— Shelly Crane

#life #life

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family. ↗