For animals, the confinement of the body is the confinement of the whole being, but a person can choose freedom even when he has no physical autonomy. In order to do so, he must know what choice is, and he must believe that he deserves it. By sharing stories, we keep choice alive in the imagination and in language. We give each other the strength to perform choice in the mind even when we cannot perform it with the body.
Sheena Iyengar
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – t... SUZANNE COLLINS I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and e... ANTHONY BURGESS That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL Rise up & attack the day with Passion. The struggle you're in today is developing the strength y... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN After this I cannot even formally remain in the Swedish Academy. He knows nothing about the discussi... KNUT AHNLUND Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must ... JOHN STEINBECK Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wr... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Having placed himself on the level of the world for humans to choose between, God nevertheless stipu... MARK A. TIETJEN Having placed himself on the level of the world for humans to choose between, God nevertheless stipu... MARK A. TIETJEN Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man... MADELEINE L'ENGLE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ... ERIN MORGENSTERN If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without ... FREDERICK BUECHNER You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something. SHASHIDHAR SA One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. STEPHEN KING It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA SACRIFICE OR SELFISHNESS -THE CRUCIAL CHOICE HENNA SOHAIL When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an ou... NELSON MANDELA No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got? CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his... MEIR KAHANE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. AMIT RAY Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN
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