Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness. Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings. They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that’s what you’re doing.

David Foster Wallace

Mistakes are a combination of your choices and has nothing to do with your capacity.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

It is always better to try and fail than not to try.

Alastair Reynolds

Cherish the others in your life. Cherish your freedom to be yourself. Cherish your freedom to choose who you want to be, what you want to do next.

Jay Woodman

The most important thing you can ever know is that no matter what your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

Dan Wells

Each one a little bit different but following some blueprint somewhere. As if each of us might have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.

David Vann

Happiness is a choice not a result of something you do.

Abhishek Kumar

Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards.

Charles Murray

No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.

Ayn Rand

When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality

Sunday Adelaja

If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afraid because choice means freedom and no choice means slavery!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice.

Sunday Adelaja

Agony is not something that happens to you.To agonize is a choice.

Alan Cohen

Never forget that it is by choice that the ordinary person decides to live a life that is extraordinary.

Cheryl Koevoet

Freedom is a choice, and we have to defend our choices.

Vahid Asghari

They say, timing is everything. But then they say, there is never a perfect time for anything.

Anthony Liccione

The way you choose to think and speak about yourself (to yourself and others), IS A CHOICE! You may have spent your whole life talking about yourself in a negative way, but that doesn't mean you have to continue that path.

Miya Yamanouchi

Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

Ronald Rolheiser

Don't apologize. You don't have to explain yourself. I choose you. I want you.

Lex Martin

I don't want Sydney ever to feel like my second choice, when I know in my heart that she's the right choice. The only choice.

Colleen Hoover

Bravery's a choice. It's not something you're born with or without. It's something that grows inside you each time you choose to stand up and fight for the right thing. Each time you choose to speak out instead of staying silent. Each time you take on a force greater than yourself for the sake of others.

Melissa Pearl

Every choice you make is have an end result and you are the only one who responsible for whatever the result is.

Sivaprakash Sidhu Sivaprakash G Sivaprakash Gopal

Let us make a choice and a promise to be kind, courteous, loving, and forgiving.

Debasish Mridha

It is up to the individual to 'choose' their repertoire of the self. If they do not have access to the range of narratives and discourses for the production of the ethical self they may be held responsible for choosing badly, an irresponsible production of themselves

Bev Skeggs

Every choice has its consequences. Some more than others

Stephenie Meyer

I wouldn’t have gone if he’d made me. But it was different, deciding myself. It made staying too easy. It took the...the rebelliousness out of it.'Peter nodded. 'It’s easy to take the opposite path from the one you’re directed to,' he said. 'It’s much harder to find the right path alone.

Jack Iams

No one controls who we turn into but us.

Amy Engel

In kindergarten we all stand before a choice - Do we accept the accepted to be accepted or do we stay logical and keep thinking?

L.H.

What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?

Jo Walton

I believe that the choice not to have a choice is a choice in itself.

Kcat Yarza

Have to wait my turn.Have to follow the rules.Have to smile like I agree.Have toHave toHave toHave toChoose him.

Holly Bodger

In order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it, at any rate, should be settled for us without our permission. If we wish life to be a system, this may be a nuiseance; but if we wish it to be a drama, it is an essential. It may often happen, no doubt, that a drama may be written by somebody else which we like very little. But we should like it still less if the author came before the curtain every hour or so, and forced on us the whole trouble of inventing the next act. A man has control over many things in his life; he has control over enough things to be the hero of a novel. But if he had control over everything, there would be so much hero that there would be no novel.

G.K. Chesterton

If you reject feedback, you also reject the choice of acting in a way that may bring you abundant success.

John Mattone

She always said she’d already lost one child to gangs and she was not losing another. We were surrounded by gangs and kids getting in trouble blaming it on the area they lived in, but Memo and I are living proof of what my mom always said to us. You are who you choose to be. You’re only a victim of your environment if you allow yourself to be.

Elizabeth Reyes

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

Heinz von Foerster

You’ll never have control over other people's decisions, or what cards life deals you. Your power lies in the choosing of your response. That is the one thing you can control.

John Mark Green

When you cannot do what you have always done, then you only do what matters most.

Robert D. Hales

Don't apologize.""I wasn't-""Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It's a choice, Olivia.

Kelley Armstrong

Blindness is a choice born of fear, nursed by complacency and groomed by comfort. And what I often don’t see in my blindness is that 'choice' evidences the existence of other options.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

God waits for our permission and doesn’t invade our privacy as we do with others.Everybody has free choice.

Mabel Katz

As if one tiny choice by someone unimportant could make that much difference! History had to be a bit tougher than that. It all sprang back eventually, didn't it? He was sure he'd read something about that, somewhere. If it wasn't like that, no one would ever dare do anything.

Terry Pratchett

Are you fixing to stay in this country, then, Walter? After you've dug yourself a patch, and made yourself a pile?''I expect my luck will decide that question for me.''Would you call it lucky to stay, or lucky to go?''I'd call it lucky to choose,' said Moody—surprising himself, for that was not the answer he would have given, three months prior.

Eleanor Catton

The reality is that its in our best interest to make a choice out of the lots or two. Good or bad, but still a decision must be made in order to move on. Its a waste of time to be between two opinions.Good thing is you can always repent or change your mind if you find out you made the wrong choice but if you linger ....oh dear

Mary Tornyenyor

No one chooses his parent or childhood, but you can choose your own direction. Everyone has problems and obstacles to overcome.

Anonymous

I'd made my choice, though, and I couldn't take it back.

Sarah Dessen

Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most....women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings?

Christina Hoff Sommers

She cannot escape marriage; it is her sacred Hindu duty, just as giving her away in marriage was her father’s sacred Hindu duty. Like Indian Independence, marriage is her ultimate ‘Tryst with Destiny,’ and it is not in her hand to escape her preordained and compulsory fate. A marriageable daughter is the lowest common denominator in the giant scheme of things.

Chandana Roy

As a woman I am so curious about prostitutes because of the idea that they know men better than you. Also, it's such a strange way to live. But at the same time there are prostitutes who just want to be prostitutes, and this is this woman, nobody pushed her to do it. She's a prostitute because she wants to be a prostitute. It's her philosophy of life.

Monica Bellucci

Happiness is no luck, its decision a choice.

Abdul Mueed

You take up the spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise.

The Mother

the troubles i faced that time now make me realize i really made the best choice..

shivangi lavaniya

Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!

Deyth Banger

You have a choice in life.So, Choose the win! (It's all in your choice.)

NOT A BOOK

Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we haven't made a choice.

Deyth Banger

HAPPINESS is a choice. We all seem to be chasing it. It starts with us! True happiness is a gift that we give to ourselves, but it is also a gift that we pass to others. True happiness radiates from us and affects those around us…so the gift just keeps on giving! Every moment of the day there's a chance to create it. How? By the little and simplest ways. Doing things that we love, for our self and for others - nurtures and fulfills our soul. There will always be times of sadness in our life, we can't escape that, however, being optimistic with our thoughts at times like these we will bounce back from adversity. Most of all, be generous with your time, your compassion and your heart.

Angie karan

I knew I had a choice. Either let you die and have the world blanketed with evil, or save you and make one dark moment for my best friend while the world continues to grow with light.

K. Weikel

You get to choose your decision, but you don't get to choose the consequences.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

Some jokes are stupid and useless, if you can't get it. It's to stupid to go in it, but whatever!- Make your choice!

Deyth Banger

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