“When a difficult situation comes into your life, it is possible to tune in to your mind and say, ?Okay, choose.? Are you going to make yourself miserable or content? Are you going to visualize scarcity or abundance? Are you going to put yourself down for getting angry with your husband or are you simply going to notice what insecurity you were feeling at the time and discuss it with him? The choice is definitely yours. Pick the one that contributes most to your aliveness and growth.” MindFeelingsChoicesDifficultGrowthSituationHusbandPicksOkayAngryMiserableAbundanceTunesInsecurityScarcityYour HusbandDifficult Situations Author:Susan Jeffers
“As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay!” IfsTryingProblemReligionChoicesEvilFearOkayAtheistScaredBe GoodRationalize Author:Billy Joel
“If I have taken part in anything perceived as the fame machine, it's been my choice. My motivations certainly have been different from some people's that I've worked with. But it's okay to work equally passionately for two different reasons.” PeopleIfsHas BeensTwoDifferentReasonMotivationChoicesTakenFameOkayMachines Author:Alanis Morissette
“Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.” PeopleSometimesChoicesLonelinessOkayLongingMourningDesperateParts Of LifeBad Choices Author:Jennifer Lee
“I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay. I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food. We don't have a "no junk food" rule - I just want them to think about their choices.” IfsThinkingWantWould BeChoicesGirlFeltOkayObsessedPieJunkBurgersMy GirlJunk FoodFriesFrench FriesFrench Love Author:Michelle Obama
“I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingYearsStillsTwoProblemOrderChoicesBitsDyingHavensPlanetsShapesComfortableYears AgoOkayTwentiesCamerasComplexesPhotographerTwo YearsClueEightyOur PlanetTwenty TwoTwo Years AgoComplex Problems Author:Eugene Richards
“You know, or three kinds of ice cream bars and you'd see this and like this... okay they could clearly benefit from some more choices and I remember having these discussions with the Japanese because they you know they often like to go to Hawaii for vacation because it was definitely much cheaper for them and I would ask them, "So when you go to Hawaii, you know do eat all these other things?"” KnowsKindRememberChoicesThreeAsksBenefitsOkayBarsIceDiscussionVacationCreamHawaiiIce CreamCheaperHey You Author:Sheena Iyengar
“I put out a good 10 different types of drinks for them and they just said, "Oh, okay, so it's just one choice." One choice? I gave you Coke, Pepsi, Ginger Ale, Sprite. They saw that as one choice. Now why was that one choice? Because they felt, well, it was just all soda.” WellsSaidDifferentChoicesFeltSawsTypeDrinkOkayJust OneCokeSodaGingerAlePepsi Author:Sheena Iyengar
“I can't let fear kill my creative brain. Fear is the killer. Your bad choices come from fear. And I'm constantly combating fear. I'm one of the most fearful people, which may be why I'm so sensitive about it. I combat fear, constantly. So, when something like this happens, it only makes us stronger, but it reminds you that your strength is by being able to fight that stuff off and being okay with failure. If I get everything I wish and I get to make movies for the rest of my life, I'm going to have many failures and I need to be okay with that.” PeopleChoicesFightingWishBrainCreativeOkayStrongerSensitiveFearful Author:Jon M. Chu
“Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters." Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little.” WayLittlesSaidMatterChoicesRoomsEffectsOkayLockedMadmenLeakage Author:Neal Stephenson
“I never lied to you. (Kiara) Of course you did –you said you could see the real us– that we weren’t as bad as we claimed. But you didn’t and, just like everyone else, so long as we risk our lives to protect and save you, we’re okay. But the moment we have to make a choice not ours, the moment you see what our pasts have made us, you’re horrified by the truth and hate us for it like we had some kind of choice in what we are. (Syn)” KindLongMadeSaidRealMomentsPastHateChoicesCoursesOur LivesRiskProtectOkayOur PastLied Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“There was a pause, and then Damien said, "I nominate Erik Night." Shaunee rolled her eyes. Erin said, "Okay, how many times do we have to explain this to you - the boy is not on your team. He likes breasts and vaginas, not penises and anu - " "Stop!" I absolutely did not want to get off on this subject. "I think Erik Night is a good choice, and not because he likes me or, well...” ThinkingWantWellsSaidEyeNightChoicesBoysTeamSubjectsOkayLikesBreastsHer EyesPausesGood ChoicesErin Book:House of Night Series Books 1-4: Marked, Betrayed, Chosen and Untamed Source: House of Night Series Books 1-4: Marked, Betrayed, Chosen and Untamed
“Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You learn.” WayGivingHumansMovingChoicesGrowsHurtGrowing UpConditionsOkayMiseryMoving ForwardRememberedKeep GoingHuman ConditionNew ThingsAbigail Author:Jennifer Weiner