Best events & choices Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice - in the face of any event - for joy.”

Faces Joy Spirit Choices Events Circumstances Determine Happy Stature Happy Girl

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.”

Whole Choices Childhood Events Birth Advantage This Day Rejoice My Birthday

Book:Ecce Homo

Source: Ecce Homo

“The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters, and events that shape the stories of our lives.”

Soul Character Stories Choices Our Lives Events Shapes Backgrounds Setting Settings Observers Life Choices Confluence

Book:The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence

Source: The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence

“The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.”

Sometimes Choices Process Rooms Numbers Audience Stage Fronts Events Determined Experiments Rehearsal Choices You Make

Author:Ben Kingsley

“All pain in life comes from wishing things were different than they are. Conversely, peace and happiness must come from accepting life as it is and breaking through the barriers of illusion to do so... All things that we label good or bad often hold in them surprises if we stay open. Each of us has choice in how we interpret life's events and in this way we are each responsible for our own reality.”

Ifs Way Different Reality Pain Choices Wish Accepting Events Illusion All Things Responsible Surprise Labels Barriers Peace And Happiness Accepting Life Pain In Life

Author:Kristine Carlson

“At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.”

Moments Choices Given Events Choices You Make Love And Fear

Author:Jennifer Beals

“Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to be self-moving and to behave in unpredictable ways. And recent studies in biology seem to demonstrate that bacteria and macromolecules have elemental forms of perception, memory, choice, and self-motion.”

Source: God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology

“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.”

Shows Choices Courses Views Emotion Impossible Events Photographer Journalist Intimate Composition Portraits Framing Unbiased

Book:Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out

Source: Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out

“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".”

People Way Body Faces Moving Certain Choices Culture Acting Situation Events And Love Response Touched Abstraction Making Choices Work And Love

Author:H. Ned Seelye

“Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.”

Choices Our Lives Events Determine Ships Helm Small Events

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.”

Ifs Want Moving Choices Fall Powerful Events Shapes Succeed Debate Divides Our Future Fall Back Stale

Author:Barack Obama

“It is human choices that move events.”

Humans Moving Choices Events

Author:George W. Bush

“We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.”

Humans Running Moving Choices Nations Events Chosen Triumph Wheels Inevitability

Author:George W. Bush

“Those that pulled my credential were actually doing me a favor. I was given a pass to leave an event that already had me feeling uneasy and uncomfortable in my career choice.”

Feelings Choices Given Careers Events Favors Uncomfortable Uneasy Doing Me Careers Choices

Author:Michelle Beadle

“Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Digging back through the events of the past, I found that there have been all sorts of people who had a greater effect on us than our own fathers. Perhaps an adult that we wanted to become like, or someone with such a strong presence that even now, they remain in our hearts - someone who might be referred to as a "father of choice."”

People Heart Has Beens Might Wanted Past Choices Found Father Strong Greater Effects Events Adults Digging

Author:Mamoru Hosoda

“You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.”

People Ifs Choices Events Live In The Present

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain choices in your life. Maybe you can reach to that self and borrow gifts and lessons from that self and maybe even help them on their road.”

Made Different Self Helping Certain Choices Events Lessons Track Following Parallels Different Choices

Author:Robert Moss

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