“My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.” WayChoicesUnderstandingLearningPerspectiveKeysCircumstancesExpectationsConsciousAll ThingsFunctionClimateResponseInspiredAcknowledgeRecognizingControl Myself Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.” LoveImportantChoicesCoursesDifficultSituationResponseAllowing Author:Meredith L. Young-Sowers
“Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.” MomentsHappensChoicesSpaceQualityDependsIntegrityResponseQuality Of LifeStimulusSpace BetweenStimulus And Response Author:Stephen Covey
“If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time. Joy, though, is something else. It’s not a choice, not a response to some result, it is a constant. Joy is “the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do,” no matter the outcome.” IfsMatterFeelingsJoyChoicesResultsConstantResponseUnhappyOutcomesLet Down Author:Matthew McConaughey
“The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.” IfsMayChoicesAnswersViolenceToughThreatResponseAcceptableSavagesRight AnswersTough Choices Author:Jeff Cooper
“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
“Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched.... We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of similar situations...we notice people moving their bodies in certain ways - making choices in their lives about where to live, what to eat, how to learn, how to work and love - in response to similar events and experiences, and say: "oh, these people belong to the same culture".” PeopleWayBodyFacesMovingCertainChoicesCultureActingSituationEventsAnd LoveResponseTouchedAbstractionMaking ChoicesWork And Love Author:H. Ned Seelye
“Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.” ChoicesLove IsResponseControl Myself Author:Natalie Portman
“Sound continues to be a mystery to me, in that one could create infinite songs focusing on the same subject, but depending on the melody, instrument choice, minor or major key, time signature, etc., each song could elicit an entirely different response.” DifferentSongChoicesSoundMysterySubjectsKeysMajorsInfiniteInstrumentsResponseEtcMelodyMinorsSignatures Author:Josh Garrels
“Hearing the record and seeing the response is affirming that it was the right time and right choice.” ChoicesRecordsSeeingResponseHearingRight TimeAffirmingRight Choices Author:Balthazar Getty
“At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.” PersonsFeelingsRunningPastChoicesGivenLevelsResponseCraftsThemeComprehensionErasers Author:Jane Hirshfield