All Quotes By Tag: Choice

“All happiness happens in the Now. Therefore, how we interpret every passing moment is one of the most crucial choices we make.”

“Only foolish men beat their wives, wise men love them and care for them irrespective of their flaws and mistakes.”

“happiness is a choice and is entirely down to us”

“When in doubt, adopt an attitude of curiosity.”

“Happiness like unhappiness is a proactive choice. We are free to choose our responses to any situation. The choice is ours. We are really the sum total of the choices we make; the ball is always in our court.”

“Large or small, I always have a choice. But I also have a choice to think that I don’t have a choice.”

“Today’s applications will become tomorrow’s implications and complications. So watch your actions, reactions, associations and communications.”

“People don’t get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose – that’s happiness.”

“The way into the hall of success always passes through the chamber of decision. Decide to be a success; success is deliberate!”

“In Zen, there is an old saying: The obstacle is the path. Know that a whole and happy life is not free of obstacles. Quite the contrary, a whole and happy life is riddled with obstacles-they simply become the very stepping-stones that help lift us to a new perspective. It is not what happens to us in this life that shapes us, it is how we choose to respond to what happens to us.”

“Some people are like a thermometer. If their environment is negative, they are negative. If bad things happen, they are sad. If good things happen, they are happy. They are simply a product of their environment. Successful people, on the other hand, are more like a thermostat. Even if their environment is negative, they choose to be positive.”

“A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing or to love the right person or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not through a deficiency of discipline but because the jurisdiction of will is limited to the latest brain and to those functions within its purview. Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.”

“The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern your freedom.”

“Yes, faith; it is my cousin’s duty to make curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please you.’ But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please me.”

“A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp.”