“Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.” PeopleSometimesReasonPoliticalChoicesBornReligiousEconomicPureAdults Author:Jacques Pepin
“Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.” ChoicesBlackCommunityPureMembersGreekBlack Community Author:Johnny Otis
“To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.” ActionDesireChoicesDifficultBuddhismPureLiberationPurityEnslavement Author:Frederick Lenz
“By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.” ChoicesActorsPureLuckInstinctAdventurer Author:Errol Flynn
“Thinking is hard. Making value judgments is difficult. It places you at pure creation, because there are so many times you'll have to say, "I don't know. I just don't know." Yet still you'll have to decide. And so you'll have to choose. You'll have to make an arbitrary choice. Such a choice - a decision coming from no previous personal knowledge - is called pure creation. And the individual is aware, deeply aware, that in the making of such decisions is the Self created.” ThinkingKnowsInspirationalStillsSelfHardValuesChoicesIndividualDifficultReligiousDecisionCreationPureJudgmentArbitraryPersonal Knowledge Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure choice produces salvation through the pure creation of highest idea in this moment now.” InspirationalIdeasMomentsChoicesReligiousCreationProducePureHighestSalvationResponseObedience Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs. ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum.” ChoicesRichAliveAirPureMountainRainShiningFlightLiftsPlanesDawnDullAviationSteadyRidingFlashRainbowRidgesHumdrum Author:Dean Smith