120 quotes
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”
— Stephen Covey
“Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.”
— Naval Ravikant
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
— Dalai Lama
“Time is a created thing. To say I dont have time is like saying I dont want to.”
— Lao Tzu
“Between stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our power to choose compassion”
— Viktor Frankl
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
— John C. Maxwell
“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
— Catherine the Great
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them”
— Henri Matisse
“I am not what happened to me I am what I choose to become”
— Carl Jung
“If you want to be happy, be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it is always your choice.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.”
— Maya Angelou
“Each player must accept the cards life deals him but once they are in hand he alone must decide how to play them”
— Voltaire
“I am not what happened to me I am what I choose to become and faith empowers that choice”
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.”
— Robert Frost
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
“We cannot choose what happens to us but we can choose how we respond”
— Edith Eger
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom and power to choose our response toward peace.”
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
“Be miserable or motivate yourself whatever has to be done it is always your choice and healing is always available”
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness or peace in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom.”
“Between stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our power to choose”
“Be miserable or motivate yourself whatever has to be done it is always your choice”
“Pain is inevitable suffering is optional”
— Haruki Murakami
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference”
“Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.”
“If you want to be happy be. If you want peace choose it now.”
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”
— Sarah Louise Delany
“Choose to be optimistic it feels better”
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
— George Eliot
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”
“You do not choose your family they are given to you but you can choose your friends”
— Desmond Tutu
“Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.”
— Bob Proctor
“The only difference between a hero and a villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish”
— Chadwick Boseman
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall
“If you want to be happy be.”
“The greatest weapon against stress in family life is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
— William James
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
— Abraham Maslow
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
— Stephen King
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make”
“Love is not a feeling but a choice. It's not what you feel but more what you do.”
— Matthew Kramer
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.”
— Joy Page
“We cannot choose what happens to us but we can choose how we respond and in that choice lies our healing”
“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.”
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask yourself do I want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future”
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
— Hannah Arendt
“Whatever the present moment contains accept it as if you had chosen it”
— Eckhart Tolle
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
— Unknown
“Choose to be optimistic for it feels better and faith makes optimism not just a feeling but a way of life”
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment and compassion is loves highest expression”
— Barbara De Angelis
“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.”
— William Shakespeare
“Suffering is universal but victimhood is optional”
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
— Victor Frankl
“The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop.”
“The one thing you cant take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.”
“Today's choices become tomorrow's standards.”
— Anonymous
“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”
“We can choose the books we encounter.”
— Augustine
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.”
“In our lives we will inevitably face painful experiences but the suffering that accompanies them is optional”
— Tara Brach
“When you have the choice between being right and being kind choose kind”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
“Freedom is an inevitable choice.”
— Sartre
“If you want to be happy be”
“The moment we choose compassion over judgment everything shifts in our hearts”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle
“Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends and family we choose.”
— Tennessee Williams
“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude and compassion is always a choice”
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done it is always your choice.”
“What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.”
“The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination.”
— bell hooks
“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
“Only the dead have seen the end of war. The living must choose peace each day.”
— Plato
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another toward peace.”
— Tolstoy
“The seed of suffering in you may be strong but do not wait until you have no more suffering to be happy”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
— Epictetus
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
“The choices you make today change tomorrow.”
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
“Time is a created thing to say I do not have time is like saying I do not want to”
“Today's me is yesterday's choice.”
“If you don't walk today, you'll have to run tomorrow.”
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms, to choose ones attitude.”
“Between stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our freedom and power to choose”
“In any given moment we have two options to step forward into growth or to step back into safety”
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.”
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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