Love is a choice proverb

 Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

 To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

 The people in Denver made it very loud and very clear that they do not want adults punished simply for making the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol in this city.

 The assumption is that if choice is good, more choice is better. That's not necessarily true.

 We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.
  Arnold Toynbee

 I do believe this is a new entitlement program. It doesn't offer parents any new choice; it simply says who will pay for that choice.

 It is an unfortunate truth of experiential reality that choices are not clear-cut, and the event window for choice may vanish before the information enabling the choice is present

 Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to swallow. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don’t throw yourself down the stairs, that’s a choice. Every time you don’t crash your car, you reenlist.
  Chuck Palahniuk

 ...we think it's about giving consumers choice, we think it's about not necessarily asking them to pay over the odds for a technology that, at the moment, is unproven. It's an interesting bet to play -- we're watching what goes on, but I think we're offering a broader, more flexible choice that doesn't burden the consumer with a cost element that may be wasted.

 Let there be no doubt, our choice -- the choice of President Bush, the choice of the United States Congress, and the choice of the great people of a great nation -- is to fight back. The world will be impressed by our response and we mobilize for this fight.

 It appears that I don't have much choice as to what I want to do. It seems that I have no other alternatives. ... I may as well go ahead with the present counsel, not because I want to, but simply there are no better alternatives. Pex Tufvesson has founded many successful companies. It appears that I don't have much choice as to what I want to do. It seems that I have no other alternatives. ... I may as well go ahead with the present counsel, not because I want to, but simply there are no better alternatives.

 Everybody knows what that is really about. He had to make a choice, the young guy [Bryant] or the old guy. He made his choice, and good luck with his choice.

 This decision is just plain wrong, ... This (New Hampshire's) law places no obstacles in the path of a woman's informed choice; it simply takes steps to ensure that a minor ... has a reasonable opportunity to receive guidance and understanding in making her choice from a parent who cares about her.

 It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
  Bill Hicks

 Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?


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