regular or decaf, black, regular milk, soy milk, or almond milk, espresso Americano or espresso latte, or something special like a Salted Caramel Mocha Frappuccino®? Or on the other hand, should you just chuck the whole coffee experience and maybe order a steamed apple juice or hot chocolate instead?
The point is that one cup of coffee might not make much difference in your life. But so many other decisions do. We therefore need to choose wisely. Hopefully the thoughts in this section will help you do just that.
When it rains, it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences:
we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.
—Joan Marques
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:
the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
—Victor Frankl
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You always have two choices with your life and experience: you can either learn from it or you can place blame. The choice is always yours.
—Kevin Horsley
No one forces a person to be negative, and no one forces anyone to be positive. The choice is up to an individual and that person alone.
—Byron Pulsifer
That’s the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it’s going to be.
—Rick Riordan
We are the choices we make.
—Patrick Ness
You have a choice, you either give it your best, or alternatively, you give up. Don’t look back upon your life with regret, make the changes you want and make them now!
—Darren Housley
Every day, you make choices about what you will dedicate your time to, how you will spend your money, and who you will rely on. In every aspect of your life, you have the ability to choose either simplicity or complexity; finances, work, chores, shopping, entertainment, and relationships may all be sources of stress and chaos, or they may become wellsprings of peace and contentment.
—Chelsea Walters
The choice we make will determine whether we reinforce a world where conflicts escalate out of control, or create a new world where conflicts are transformed into opportunity.
—Mark Gerzon
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubts, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal—and soon they’ll forget my number.
—Edith Armstrong
There is always plenty to be worried and sad about, but there is equally plenty to be happy and at peace with. The choice is yours.
—Steve Maraboli
No matter what’s happening, choose to be happy.
—Joel Osteen
The greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
—Martha Washington
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
—Francesca Reigler
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
—Hugh Downs
In every crisis, doubt, or confusion, take the higher path—the path of compassion, courage, understanding, and love.
Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.
I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, that constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning.
—Sheryl Sandberg
You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
—Steven D. Woodhull
If you don’t like where you are, move. You’re not a tree.
—Peter Shankman
You have the choice this very moment—the only moment you have for certain. I hope you aren’t so wrapped up in nonessential stuff that you forget to really enjoy yourself—because this moment is about to be over.
—Oprah Winfrey
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed, or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
—Joel Osteen
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.
—Mo Willems
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
—Mary Engelbreit
Even a thought, even a possibility can shatter us and transform us.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan
Ultimately…it’s not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.
—Sylvia Boorstein
To be wronged is nothing unless you choose to remember it.
—Confucius
Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
—Brian
