(592 quotes found)
“Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters”
Czech Proverb
“You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.”
Wayne Dyer
“By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.”
Auguste Rodin
“All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart”
Carlos Casteneda
“In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter”
Jewish Proverb
“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.”
Cesare Pavese
“Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.”
William Lyon Phelps
“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.”
Catherine Drinker Bowen
