Choices

"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings." - Pearl S. Buck ...

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” - Eleanore Roosevelt ...

"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."                 - Wendell Berry ...

"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 ...

“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 ...

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln ...

"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself." - Rita Mae Brown ...

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.” - Leo Buscaglia ...

"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 ...

“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.” - Margaret Mead ...