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Related JOSEPH EPSTEIN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The words you can’t find, you borrow.GABRIELLE ZEVIN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... People are attracted to who we are more than what we do. LORRIN L. LEE RALPH WALDO EMERSON DOUGLAS COUPLAND WILLIAM TEMPLE CRAIG GROESCHEL Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We cannot choose how we are born or how we will die, but I am certain that we are able to choose how... ZEKE MILLAN We will struggle regardless of what we choose to do with our lives. Why not struggle for what we wan... CHARLIE JAMES C.S. LEWIS BECKY ALBERTALLI We cannot choose when to be born or when to die, but we can decide to be good persons. PETER SAYSOMPHANE IDOWU KOYENIKAN The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO MARTHA BECK DOUGLAS COUPLAND GERMANY KENT URSULA K. LE GUIN ABHISHEK KUMAR V.E. SCHWAB MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI PAULO COELHO You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE We want to have control over our lives. We want to be able to choose who we work with without having... CHAD SINANIAN We make it clear that if we are kidnapped, we do not want there to be force or any form of violence ... JAN BENVIE R. H. BLYTH R. H. BLYTH We don't get to choose what happens to us, just what we do about it. BJ MORIN Living in the past is always a bad idea; yet, on some level I believe the ones we love, even though ... TONY C. SKYE LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. PEGGY TONEY HORTON J.R.R. TOLKIEN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE CRAIG GROESCHEL DAVID HUME HASSAN NASRALLAH When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) MICHAEL GOVE Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us liv... DAN PEARCE DEYTH BANGER STEPHEN R. COVEY 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then ... ERNIE FLETCHER JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who’s given us more, the Li... JANNY WURTS JOYCE MEYER ERICH FROMM THORNTON WILDER JOHN GREEN One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case ... GORDON ATKINSON When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste... CHETAN BHAGAT ERIK PEVERNAGIE KAMI GARCIA Just as teenagers can live in the same house as their parents, yet choose not to live “close” to... THERESA DEDMON ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH KEMI SOGUNLE Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then ... ERNIE FLETCHER So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted... JULIAN THE APOSTATE So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted... JULIAN THE APOSTATE GARY ZUKAV We are all broken. It's what we choose to do with the pieces that matters. BLOODYANGEL JEAN-LUC GODARD DEYTH BANGER MICHELLE OBAMA CRAIG GROESCHEL We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconsciou... SIMON PEGG We can choose to continue with the existing reality, or we can choose to change the world we live in... HOWARD MANN Shall we not recover ourselves? Shall we not redeem ourselves to one another? Shall we not restore t... L.M. BROWNING We can not tell what may happen to you in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens... JOSEPH F. NEWTON History is us and we are history. History is written not with the pen but by our actions, what we do... DANIEL OKE No matter what we do, each instant contains infinite choices. What we choose to think, to say or to ... DOROTEA BRANDIN What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN ...We don't choose our freaks, they choose us...We may not understand why we freak on a particular f... STEVE ALMOND RICHARD BACH DEIRDRE-ELIZABETH PARKER God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He g... ALAN BRENNERT We have the free will to choose how we react to those stimuli every moment of our life and what we c... THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU Our past experience is the manifestations of our thoughts..
we see what we want to see,
we listen wh... MIROR_VEGAS One day you will face the hardest decision of your life: to choose the right thing or to choose what... JOE WOODHEAD ANTHONY T. HINCKS You get to choose to live a boring, average, fun, exciting, blissful, giving and/or magnificent life... LORRIN L. LEE E. LOCKHART GORDON B. HINCKLEY Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose PARKER LOUIS SEELY JOHN RUSKIN I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ... BARBARA KRUGER A house takes on the character of its inhabitants; a homeowner takes on the characteristics of the h... CLIFFORD COHEN GEORGE WILL ERIC HOFFER What we notice is what resonates with our inner perspective. We tend to
overlook what does not conne... GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT CRAIG GROESCHEL Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
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All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream... 
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... 
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... 
Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944 The principle of sacrifice is... 
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. 
The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is... 
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... 
Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ... 
We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the... 
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to cho... 
In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... 
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... 
So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do a... 
We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! 
We don't choose what we are, but we choose what we do. 
It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our d... 
We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and de... 
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, li... 
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, li... 
We are what we are. 
So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is w... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. 
We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mir... 
Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending ou... 
We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of lif... 
What will happen if we go to 0 day?
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or
what we do, but wha... 
Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want ... 
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no... 
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; th... 
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sove... 
I know it doesn't feel this way all the time, but we get to choose what we care about and what we sp... 
When questioning ourselves, we must identify, where we are heading to. Do we prefer our life to rema... 
We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it. 
The entire journey of life is lived with energy and we use energy in all that we do from dawn to dus... 
Bullies do not just wake up and decide to be one. They are people who have or are experiencing emoti... 
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we w... 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
We both know... that soon everything is going to end...
We simply do not allow space in our hearts, minds, or souls for darkness. 
There's always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we cho... 
Do we really mean it when we say ‘in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death... 
We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not. 
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be 
God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and l... 
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only c... 
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind... 
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. 
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our ne... 
All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream... 
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven dea... 
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. 
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. 
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h... 
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. 
Justice is the truth in action. 
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. 
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. 
The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives. 
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely th... 
The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. N... 
People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it. 
The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it ... 
I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eye... 
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t... 
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed... 
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bo... 
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i... 
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can ch... 
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to
achieve immortality through not dyin... 
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts
nothing. 
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least... 