options

Money gives you options,Hard work gives you success, Healthy relationships give you a long life, But faith gives you everything!

Serpentining" means trying to control a situation, backing out of it, pretending it's not happening, or maybe even pretending that you don't care. We use it to dodge conflict, discomfort, possible confrontation, the potential for shame or hurt, and/or criticism (self- or other-inflicted). Serpentining can lead to hiding out, pretending, avoidance, procrastination, rationalizing, blaming, and lying.I have a tendency to want to serpentine when I feel vulnerable. If I have to make a difficult call, I'll try to script both sides of it. I'll convince myself that I should wait, I'll draft an e-mail while telling myself that it's better in writing, and I'll think of a million other things to do. I'll emotionally run back and forth until I'm exhausted.

What is really not fair about life is the fact that we have to pay the cost of our weaknesses which we didn't chose nor we had the option to refuse. Apart from that life is very fair.

solutions have a voice - the art is knowing how to listen

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

Freedom is realizing you have a choice.

Police intentionally murdering a mentally unstable person will always be unacceptable when there are numerous other non-lethal options available to them.

Get on top of the obstacles and they become vantage points.

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.

Blindness is a choice born of fear, nursed by complacency and groomed by comfort. And what I often don__ see in my blindness is that 'choice' evidences the existence of other options.

Everyone has the abbility to hurt. It's the choice that matters.

People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy.

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

Light or dark, happy or sad, black or white, right or wrong there are only two strong options, the opposites and others are weak.

People always have choices. They might not always have options, but they do have choices.

It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.