"We have to be willing to let go of "that's just the way it is," even if just for a moment, to consider the possibility that there isn't a way it is or a way it isn't. There is the way we choose to act and what we choose to make of circumstances."
–– Lynne Twist, American writer and public speaker
Source: Jeff Karp. LIT: Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action. New York: William Morrow, 2024; p. 1.
"You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks."
–– Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Prime Minister 1940-1945; 1951-1955
via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2014, p. 69.
"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength."
–– Hasidic saying
Source: Austin Kleon Instagram stories, Monday September 23, 2024.
via: Sketchbook N 14, 2004, p. 24.
"Ask yourself of every dilemma, every choice, every relationship, every commitment, or every failure to commit, "Does this choice diminish me or enlarge me?"
–– James Hollis (b. 1940), American Jungian psychotherapist, author and public speaker
Source: James Hollis. What Matters Most.
"If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be."
–– Epictetus (50-135 A.D.), Greek stoic philosopher
via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 26.
"Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before."
–– C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), Irish-born British writer and lay theologian
via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 61
