That Is Life. Quotes
For the day we accept that we have chosen to choose our choices is the day we cast off the shackles of victimhood and are set free to pursue the lives we were born to live.
When we do what's right, regardless of circumstances or consequences, we set the table for God to turn the tables. All we need to do is stand up, step in, or step out.
Working smarter is learning to prioritize, plan, and focus our energies with meaningful intent.
You have the potential to make healthy choices and balance your priorities no matter where you are on your life journey.
The answer to finding better work/life balance is to find the right blend between all our life activities—regardless of where and when they occur.
The choices I didn’t make are almost as ruinous as the ones I did.
Luck is made by the making the right choices at the right timing and place.
Control or be controlled are the choices that will make life different.
Today is the sum of all the choices we made in our yesterdays. Choose wisely, for a secure, happy, and meaningful tomorrow.
How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.
Freedom only exists in the choice. When you don't have the choice you are not free.
Who you are is why you choose the friends and situations in your life.
We do not have control over what happens to us in life, but we do have control over how we chose to respond.
The purpose of your life is the purpose you bring to it choice by choice and recognition by recognition.
We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception.
By choosing to have a calm response to what seems negative you bring clarity and balance to your message.
Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world.
It is easy to know your purpose in life, because you choose your purpose in life.
Opportunity will only meet you in the domain of your chosen attitude.
You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself.
Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely.
Once you choose to love yourself then everything else will be perfect.
You should never have a relationship based on guilt over someone's poor choices.
Always choose to trust yourself and your ability to listen.
If you want change and don’t make choices that reflect the change, you are making a choice to keep things the same.
Life is a treasure-chest of opportunities, choices, and time. Unfortunately, the choice many people make is to argue about the details of the chest instead of seizing the treasure within it.
Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions
People who have suffered understand pain and are often the best at helping others.
It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.
Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can’t do it, you won’t do it and you’ll become stuck. If you believe you can do it, you will.
For intuitive people, it can be exhausting having to constantly manage other people’s emotional needs on personal social media accounts.
Negative emotional states are a breeding ground for mistakes.
Emotions invariably push you to take suboptimal decisions
It's emotions. Sometimes you feel, sometimes you don't. You can't force yourself into feeling something, can you?
Highs must be followed by lows.
But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us.
Highs must be followed by lows
No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.
When the flow of a river is blocked, it overflows or breaks the barriers. Similarly, our emotions can get out of control if their expression is blocked.
All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world.
Quit pretending to be humble when you are really just a self-abusing, emotional, drama junkie.
I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.
Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.
Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes ofa being that does not exist.
The claim 'God does not exist' is just as much a claim to know something as saying 'God does exist, ' meaning the atheist needs just as much substantiation for his claim as the theist does for his.
By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.
That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.