Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
Albert Camus

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
William Glasser

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
William Glasser

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor E. Frankl

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
William Faulkner

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
William Faulkner

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
Lewis Carroll

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Denis Waitley

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Leon Battista Alberti

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
William Butler Yeats

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.
Angelina Jolie

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
Margaret J. Wheatley