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The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
— Elie Wiesel
Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.
— Albert Einstein
To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'
— St. John Chrysostom
We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.
— Charles Swindoll
When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
— Dorothy Sayers
Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.
— Joel Osteen
She went of her own accord,' answered the master; 'she has a right to go if she please. Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only me sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
— Emily Bronte
If you choose, you are free; if you choose, you need blame no man—accuse no man. All things will be at once according to your mind and according to the Mind of God.
— Epictetus
If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you'll find fault with no one, you'll cast blame on no one, and everything that comes about will do so in accordance with your own will and that of God.
— Epictetus
I want to die, even though I don't have to.
— Epictetus
Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the author chooses, - if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be his pleasure that you should enact a poor man, see that you act it well; or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen. For this is your business, to act well the given part; but to choose it, belongs to another.
— Epictetus