Life Gives Us Choices

Though we tremble before uncertain futures, may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength, may we dance in the face of our fears.
( Gloria E. Anzaldua )

No matter how many people believe or don’t believe in you, you must be the ultimate believer in yourself.
( Pablo )

We are taught to consume.
And that’s what we do.
But if we realised that there really is no reason to consume, that it’s just a mind set, that it’s just an addiction, then we wouldn’t be out there stepping on people’s hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
( River Phoenix )

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others.
Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval.
Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
( Lao Tzu )

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
( Plato )

Be like a tree.
Stay connected to your roots.
Bend before you break.
Keep growing.

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts. 
( Lloyd Alexander )

I’ve learned that if you can’t get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because that’s where you can truly make an immediate difference.
( River Phoenix )

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
( Louisa May Alcott )

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe.
And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
( Gordon B. Hinckley )

The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.
( Rich DeVos )

How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space?
How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?
( Colleen Patrick-Goudreau )

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself.
Go forward and make your dreams come true.
( Ralph Waldo Emerson )

Look to this day, for yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision.
But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day.
Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
Your integrity determines your destiny.
( Heraclitus )

Each day is a new beginning.
Another chance to learn more about ourselves.
To care more about others.
To laugh more than we did.
To accomplish more than we thought we could.
To be more than we were before.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
( Baba Ram Das )

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.
Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain.
Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
( L. Lionel Kendrick )

One ought, every day at least,
To hear a little song, read a good poem,
See a fine picture and, if possible,
Speak a few reasonable words.

Your regrets aren’t what you did, but what you didn’t do.
So I take every opportunity. 
( Cameron Diaz )

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
( Martha Graham )

Never apologise for being too compassionate, too caring, too passionate, or too curious.
No, you’re not normal, but that’s a blessing.

Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion.
Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.
( Steve Maraboli )

When you look at a dandelion, you either see a weed, or you make a wish.

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets.
Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you done something different.
( Lemony Snicket )

Guide All The Nations ..
God and Creator of all people on Earth
Guide all the nations and their leaders in the ways of justice and peace.
Protect us from the evils of injustice, prejudice, exploitation, conflict and war.
Help us to put away mistrust, bitterness and hatred.
Teach us to cease the storing and using of implements of war.
Lead us to find justice, peace and freedom.
Unite us in the making and creating of the tools of peace against ignorance, poverty, disease and oppression.
Grant that we may grow in harmony and friendship as brothers and sisters created in your image, to your honour and praise.
( Florence Emily Hookins, 1896-1962 )

A quiet conscience makes one strong.
( Anne Frank )

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin.
It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.
( Ellen DeGeneres )

Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day.
You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. 
( Ralph Waldo Emerson )

Life gives us choices.
You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines. 
( Christine Feehan )

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
( Leo F. Buscaglia )

Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.
( Megan McCafferty )

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
But it’s a small link.
There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection, political prisoners, the arms race.
There’s so much going on in this world today, so much ignorance among people.
That’s not to say I’m not standing amongst everybody.
But the point is, what can we do now?
That’s the thing about vegetarianism; it’s an individual’s decision and it’s something you have control over.
How many things do we really have control over?
( River Phoenix )

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
( Maya Angelou )

We should have no regrets.
We should never look back.
The past is finished.
There is nothing to be gained by going over it.
Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
( Louisa May Alcott )

Close some doors today.
Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.
( Paulo Coelho )

The reward for helping someone or being generous is knowing you have done it.

Anger makes you smaller.
While forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.
( Cherie Carter-Scott )

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
( Chad Sugg )

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.
( Yoko Ono )

Love does much, money does more.
Ready money is a ready medicine.
To a grateful man give money when he asks.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
( Marcus Aurelius )

Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness.
To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.
( Paramahansa Yogananda )

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do. 
But it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.

Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain.
They steal your energy and keep you from love.
( Leo Buscaglia )

Never give up on what you really want to do.
The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
( H. Jackson Brown Jr. )

Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags, it’s a universal disease.
( River Phoenix )

The world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse.
And that’s where the power of love comes in.
Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
( Paulo Coelho )

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow.

The strong person is not the good wrestler.
Rather, the strong person is the one who controls himself when he is angry.
( Sahih al-Bukhari )

It is not what you give, but what you are willing to give, that determines the quality of love and friendship.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
( Mark Twain )

I’m not going to die.
I’m going home like a shooting star.
( Sojourner Truth )

When a friend or loved one is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.
Think up something appropriate and do it.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people.
To focus your energies on answers, not excuses.
( William Arthur Ward )

We all have problems and worries, but remember there is always someone with far greater difficulties than us.

Bitterness is like cancer, it eats upon the host.
But anger is like fire, it burns it all clean.
( Maya Angelou )

Anyone can become angry, that is easy.
But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way, that is not easy.
( Aristotle )

I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.
( River Phoenix )

Open up and wake up with blazing beauty.
Just remember no one is perfect and you are the most beautiful creature on this planet.
( Santosh Kalwar )

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
( Isak Dinesen )