I Quotes
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“I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.
We are deluged by information regarding our destruction of the world and hear almost nothing about how to nurture it. It is no surprise then that environmentalism becomes synonymous with dire predictions and powerless feelings. Our natural inclination to do right by the world is stifled, breeding despair when it should be inspiring action. The participatory role of people in the well-being of the land has been lost, our reciprocal relations reduced to a KEEP OUT sign.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical... the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.”
Source: When God Whispers Your Name
“I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me”
Source: You Changed My Life
“I choose life. I choose to eat, for I yearn for something more.”
Source: Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being
“I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.”
Source: Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life
“I choose many voices to consider and reckon with, rather than just one to tolerate.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.”
“I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.”
“I choose my attitude. On many mornings, it can be difficult. Yet I choose to be a victor, not a victim. I choose to be better, not bitter. I select life over death. I pick blessings over brokenness.
...when I truly make my home in the presence of God Almighty -- through daily Scripture reading, prayer, and worship -- then I'm able to absolutely trust Him.”
Source: Into the Deep
“I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.”
Source: Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
“I choose my loneliness to be able to write.”
“I choose my love for Lucinda," he called to Heaven and Earth, to the angels all around him and the ones who weren't there. To the soul of the one true thing he loved the most, wherever she was. "I now reaffirm my choice: I choose Lucinda over everything. And I will until the end." -Daniel Grigori, Passion”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.”
“I choose not be what the world is. Rather, I choose to be what the world says I cannot be.”
“I choose not to be bitter and angry because I feel there is a bigger message that I am supposed to share beyond the fact that I have cancer.”
Source: Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
“I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity," Marcus said. "Charity toward whom?" "Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn't make a world better than this.”
Source: The Dragon's Path: Book 1 of The Dagger and the Coin
“I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.”
“I choose not to hurt because I wouldn't hurt myself.
I choose to love you more because I love myself so much more.
I choose to treat, respect and honor you as the King that you're because I treat, respect and honor myself as the Queen that I am.
Don't be confused by this.
I choose to be good to you because I'm good to myself.”
“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”
“I choose not to place "DIS," in my ability.”
“I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.”
“I choose not to waste my energy hating someone and I recognise that their negativity drags me down, so I walk away from them.”
“I choose not to wrap myself up in grief over things I cannot change, cannot control, and, instead take joy in all the gifts I've been presented. Rather than rail against the moments I cannot have, I will cherish those I do--instead of squandering them in useless rage.”
Source: Dragon's Time
“I choose now to live in Berkeley, California, which is a progressive refuge, despite the fact that I can't afford to buy a house here. It's important to me that my children grow up in a place where everything is questioned, examined and debated.”
“I choose originality over duplication of behaviors which is why I don't have role models. Their path isn't mine.”
Source: I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.
“I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.”
“I choose peace, not because I don't know violence -
I choose peace, because I know too much violence.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script.”
“I choose roles that are not me.”
“I choose solitude over cold kisses. If it isn't love, it is poison.”
“I choose such notes that love one another.”
“I choose the irrational from a rational position. I’m positioning myself on Undo, undo even undoing. Un-think, because routines dull the mind, and you don’t see what’s in front of you. Familiarity breeds contempt, and also lack of in-sight and out-sight.”
Source: Men and Apparitions
“I choose the labyrinth.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.”
“I choose the most qualified people. We need to run more women in parties in ridings where they can be elected. That's what I really focused on, so that we have more women to select for cabinet, potentially.”
“I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.”
“I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.”
“I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.”
“I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.”
“I choose to be a failure but never a quitter.”
“I choose to be a happy person. I choose not to be a bitter person”
“I choose to be at peace. I look at others with the eyes of compassion, I forgive them and bless them with peace. I let go of anger and judgment. I am at peace.”
“I choose to be authentic in everything I do”
“I choose to be good to you because I'm good to myself.”
“I choose to be known as scythe Anastasia
after the youngest member of the family Romanov
she was the product of a corrupt system, and because of that, was denied her very life—as I almost was
had she lived who knows what she might have done. perhaps she could have changed the world and redeemed her family name. choose to be scythe Anastasia. I vow to become the change that night have been”
Source: Scythe
“I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.”
“I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“I choose to believe God had a more direct involvement in the creation of my heart and consciousness than in the creation of any book, no matter how thick or old it may be.”
Source: Cassie Draws the Universe