1 compiled by kathrynsmith@u-46.org 1. “it is our choices, harry, that show what we truly are, far...

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1. “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” ― J.K. Rowling

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2. “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.” ― Stephen R. Covey

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3. “In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.” ― Cassandra Clare

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4. “Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then, ' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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5. “We are our choices.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

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6. “Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices, feel the least wrong.” ― Colleen Hoover

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7. “We don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.” ― Kami Garcia

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8. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."― Theodore Roosevelt

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9. “The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.” ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

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10. “People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”

― James Baldwin

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11. “It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”

― Roy Disney

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12. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” ― Tehsil Hsieh

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13. “We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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14. “When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.” ― Jarod Kintz

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15. “Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.”

― Brodie Ashton

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16. “The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.” ― Jamie Ford

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17. “If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance.” ― Susan Del Gatto

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18. “The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.” ― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

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19. “We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.” ― Ken Levine

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20. “Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.” ― Steve Maraboli

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26. “Not to decide is to decide.” ― Harvey Cox

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22. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”

― Shannon L. Alder

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23. “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them” ― Denis Waitley

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24. “But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.” ― Libba Bray

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25. “Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.” ― Patricia Briggs

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27. “Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.” ― J.E.B. Spredemann

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28. “You have two choices in life...Choice one is to be the same and be like everyone else...Choice two is to be yourself and be a difference-maker.”

― Jazlyn Roehl

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29. “All you can do, is make your decisions based on what you know now.”

― Malinda Lo

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30. “Just because you can make a choice, doesn’t mean you should. Some things are better left alone.” ― Laura Burks

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31. “Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.” ― Suzanne Woods Fisher

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32. “What we do, our choices, that's what defines us.” ― Carrie Jones

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33. “But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.” ― Judah Smith

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34. “And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...” ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon