"We are Our Choices"

"We are our choices."

"Man in condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.  It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."

"Freedom is what you do with what is done to us."

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

Direction of Your Thoughts

 "Your life is always moving in the direction of your strongest thoughts." – Craig Groeschel

Eat the frog first ...

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”  - Mark Twain

Impossible?

 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." - Louis D. Brandeis, 20th-century US Supreme Court Justice

The Education of an Englishman

 "We think in generalities, but we live in detail." - Alfred Whitehead, The Education of an Englishman, 1926

Hope's two daughters

 "Hope has two daughters; their names are Anger and Courage.  Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are."  - Augustine of Hippo

Ivan Ilych: "Halftime" revelation

 “It occurred to him that he had not spent his life as he should have done. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false. And his professional duties and the whole arrangement of his life and of his family, and all his social and official interests, might all have been false.” 

― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych