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"If you choose not to
decide -- you still have made a choice!" -Neil Peart
"The strongest principle
of growth lies in human choice." -George Eliot
A
young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his
reading.
-C.S. Lewis
"If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow
anymore."
-Shirley Hufstedler
“There are two primary choices in life:
to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for
changing them.”
-Denis Waitley
“Life is
inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all
costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”
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..."The
ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is
to create or to destroy, to love or to hate."
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980), The Sane Society
"You don't get
to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you're
going to live now." -Joan Baez
"Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws.
Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will,
escape the consequences of his choices." -Alfred
A. Montapert
"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by
thought, choice by choice."
-Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
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"You possess a
potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every
day."
-J Martin Kohe
Excerpts from Og
Mandino's book, University to Success - Chapter 12: "How
to use your greatest power to change your life"
"Those who fail, those
who wallow in self-pity, those who always complain --according to
Mr. Kohe-- do so because they fail to use the greatest power they
possess, or they misuse it with disasterous results that brings
grief to themselves and to those whose lives they touch.
Since you, and only
you, are in charge of your mind, you also have full reign over this
great power, and by using it wisely you cannot help but become a
better person, in your business and in your personal life."
J Martin Kohe states
in his book: Your Greatest Power:
"You are the possessor
of a great and wonderful power. This power, when properly applied,
will bring confidence instead of timidity, calmness instead of
confusion, poise instead of restlessness, and peace of mind in place
of heartache.
...How many times have
we had THIS GREAT POWER right in our hands and we threw it away,
because we did not recognize it? ...Millions of people will continue
to live plain, ordinary, miserable lives because this GREAT POWER
escapes them and they never have been able to catch up with it.
...THE GREATEST POWER
THAT A PERSON POSSESSES IS THE POWER TO CHOOSE."
CHOICES
that we make are powerfully driven by one's attitude, and
strength of mind. Outcomes in life should not be confused with, or
explained away as chance, fate, or bad fortune.
It is
true that the bad things that
happen to good people, often cannot be known in advance.
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have considerably
more power to manage the risks that we are exposed to, than we
may believe, the real determination of the outcomes of these
events (i.e.: negative or positive), is how we subsequently
internalize them, and the choices we make from these points
onward. These choices are what determines our ability to learn,
to grow, to rise above the challenges and to move forward.
This is the
growth that life can give us if we can avoid focusing on the
negatives and, instead, build positively from our life's
lessons. (Example:
"Man-in-Motion",
Rick Hansen,
who at age 15, was involved in an automobile accident, that
broke his back, but has now turned that personal tragedy into an
opportunity to raise close to $200,000,000 for spinal cord
injury research, that will benefit thousands of others for generations
to come.)
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"Some people
regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me
free to fly." -Julie Andrews
"Regret is an
appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for
wallowing in."
Katherine Mansfield
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