“Up ahead they's a thousand lives we might live, but when it comes it'll only be one.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”— Katharine Weber, amazon.com
“Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big way, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“A lot of people feel like they’re victims in life, and they’ll often point to past events, perhaps growing up with an abusive parent or in a dysfunctional family. Most psychologists believe that about 85 percent of families are dysfunctional, so all of a sudden you’re not so unique. My parents were…”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.”— Stephen R. Covey, amazon.com
“It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”— Stephen R. Covey, amazon.com
“I don't know the reasons for the things that I do. Never did. I'm a damn mystery to me.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“At the moment you consciously make a choice, pay attention to your body and ask your body, ‘If I make this choice, what happens?’ If your body sends a message of comfort, that’s the right choice. If your body sends a message of discomfort, then it’s not the appropriate choice.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“It's so easy to do the wrong thing in this world. So if it feels wrong, don't do it.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you're making a choice, ask yourself if it's going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”— Deepak Chopra, books.google.com