Top 1200 Choose Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess that's the problem.' I don't think normal is that great.' But so many people choose it,' I reply. I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.' Well, why do we choose the hard road?

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy profession was to be a novelist. But the thing about writing prose - and maybe great prose writers don't feel this way - but I always felt it was about choosing words. I was always like, "I have to choose the perfect word." And then it would kill me, and I would choose the wrong word or I would choose too many perfect words - I wrote really purple prose.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

If you choose not to act, you have little chance of success. What’s more, when you choose to act, you’re able to succeed more frequently than you think. How often in life do we avoid doing something because we think we’ll fail? Is failure really worse than doing nothing? And how often might we actually have triumphed if we had just decided to give it a try?

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

Life is always full of drama and challenges, but you don't have to overreact to any of it if you choose not to.

Not just in films, even in life, if you choose to live in a space that is comfortable, you'll do fine.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.

I don't choose characters with the intention of working something out in my personal life.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

And now having a child has been taken out of the sphere of biological determinism and placed instead in the domain of intentional action. Another option to consider and decide upon. And ... not to choose is to choose.

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

Life is movement. Movement is change. Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore, is inevitable. It is the nature of life itself. The trick in life is not to try to avoid change, but to create change. Then it is the kind of change you choose.

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity.

I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

When you choose to be angry you are affirming that you want greater anger in your life.

When you choose to perceive Love over fear, life begins to flow.

You can choose to go about your life attracting attention or deflecting it.

Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be persistent. That's very important. There's nothing instant about it. It's a way of life, actually, where you choose to spend your life doing this activity called making art.

Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.

You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can’t run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.

Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

When you choose to perceive love over fear, life begins to flow. You feel peaceful and you see love in all situations. Your hang-ups subside and your life feels guided.

When you're young and you get to choose between sleep and sex you take sex everytime. You start getting older, you get to choose between sleep and sex, you choose sleep and just hope you have a dream about sex.

One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.

It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.

If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.

Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we have. I guess midrash makes sense. How does it change in the course of the sequence? Well, God is into No and into Stasis/Nouns. Adam and Eve, in order to be in this world (and get this world going) must choose verbs. Which is to gain sex but also to choose death and all else that goes with change. To choose becoming over being.

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

There is kind of this spirit in journalism to tell both sides of the story and to just let the listeners choose what they want to choose, and I understand that, and there's a place for it, but on some issues, we really do need to take a stand.

Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those who choose to be rationally self-interested thereby make the most of their life - and they are morally good because of it.

It is not where you start out in life that counts the most, it is how you choose to face it.

You choose the #life you live. If you don't like it, it's on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

When you choose your attitude toward life, you can affect reality by making it better for you

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Every aspect of your life is greatly influenced, day in and day out, by the way you imagine life to be. Imagine the best, choose the goodness, and "be a source of love and light for all to see.

Remember from this very moment: always choose that which is good for you and good for others. Choose creativity. Become a blessing to existence, because that is the only way that we can persuade God to become a blessing to us. That's the only true prayer: becoming a blessing to everyone - to people, to animals, to trees, to life in all its forms. If one remains consciously alert, slowly slowly the art is learned; slowly slowly it becomes just natural.

Mindsets are contagious. So choose the people you populate your life with extremely well.

When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

But as we are looking toward our future, I'm not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we want to be. Someone honest or deceitful?Someone kind or cruel?Someone loyal or unfaithful? In any profession we can elect to be any of those things. I think this assignment is not only about what we choose to do but about who we choose to be. I choose to always be loyal to myself. -Raven Madison

Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come.

If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of way there's nothing else to choose. In the old days there was always a Bohemia or a creative under-world to join if the mainstream life wasn't your bag - or a life of crime, or even religion.And now there's only the system. All other options have evaporated. For most people it's the System or what... death? There's nothing. There's no way out now.

You get to choose how you perceive your reality. So why, when it comes to perceiving yourself, would you choose to see anything other than a super-huge rock star of a creature?

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.