Choices

"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free." - Catherine Ponder ...

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility” - Eleanor Roosevelt ...

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein ...

"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." - Thomas Jefferson ...

"Delay is the deadliest form of denial." - C. Northcote Parkinson ...

“Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.” - Michael J. Fox ...

Our thoughts become our actions, and our actions become habits. Our habits then become the kind of person we are, and the kind of person you are decides the kind of life you choose to live." ...

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it." - Marcus Aurelius ...

"Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, otherworldly activities.... They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future." - Desmond Tutu ...

“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.” ― ...