choosing

Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life...

Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.pg 9

The job facing American voters_ in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.

We have choice,_ she insisted. __his is it. We don__ get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we__e given...

But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

When we say __es_ to something we are always saying__o_ to something else. So in that way, we never __on__ do_ anything. We are just doing something else.

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.

You can__ save everyone. It__ not an option.

My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.

There__ always another option.There__ always another one.It__ never only 'this' or 'that,'The moon or else the sun.Don__ sigh and choose the greaterOr lesser of two plights.But look to see the stars beyondFor options vast and bright.

That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.

It's not about making the right choice. It's about making a choice and making it right.

Nearly everyday life leans over and says, __ome on down!_ But standing at the bottom looking up, it__ finally dawned on me that it__ not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it__ the fact that I accepted them.

Life often presents you with difficult choices. But who made up the rules? Why choose at all?

You are creating through your choices, even now. Choose wisely.

One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can__ be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability to practice choice.