“We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.” InspirationalSuccessChoicesIndividualHavensClaimsResponsibleBlameCreditInspirational Success Book:The Art of Deception Source: The Art of Deception
“There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?” WellsWisdomChoicesPoliticsEnjoyEconomySecurityMaterialsDignityClaimsWell BeingRangeLiberalismDependentLeisureOwnershipAutonomyMore To Life Author:Louis O. Kelso
“Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.” ChoicesGenerationsLandPlanetsClaimsDespiteLegacyTitlesOwnershipDefaultHeirsFeesTenantsRendezvous Book:The Quiet Crisis Source: The Quiet Crisis
“I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do.” WantNeedsBelievePoliticalChoicesChurchPoorImportanceClaimsStressPrioritiesTreatmentFamily LifeDealingsReally Living Author:Charles J. Chaput
“Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.” MenAbleFacesChoicesInfluenceDutyClaimsLaysClimateFace To FaceBlundersLocality Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. And this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.” WorldIdeasReasonChoicesUniverseFoundExistenceDegreesPerfectionClaimsDetermineSufficientProportionInfinity Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“I'm afraid, as true as love is, it is tested by circumstance and sometimes you don't make the best choices. As much as the fans claim [that] all they want is just want people sitting around and having a nice time together, trust me, you would not be watching the show if there wasn't conflict, if there wasn't drama, if there wasn't jeopardy. And it's not just physical jeopardy, it's romantic jeopardy as well.” PeopleIfsWantWellsSometimesShowsTogetherChoicesLove IsNiceFansCircumstancesDramaConflictSittingClaimsTestedTrust MeSitting AroundJeopardyTime TogetherNice Time Author:Joseph Dougherty