Learn Through Quotations

“You shall have Joy, or you shall have Power, said God: you shall not have both.”

“The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.”

“The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.”

“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”

“Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.”

“Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.”

“I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.”

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

“Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.”

“What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.”

“Man is the artificer of his own happiness.”

“A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket. ”

“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion.”

“You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.”

“I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.”

“Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.”

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”

“I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”

“If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.”

“When anger rises, think of the consequences.”

“When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.”

“We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself.... It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.”

“Life is the sum of all your choices.”