"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."

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"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."

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"It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Life happens because of choices we make, if you want a better outcome; think before you create."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one's self."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

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"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, 'Come on down!' But standing at the bottom looking up, it's finally dawned on me that it's not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it's the fact that I accepted them."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years."

Stephen King, American Author

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"A door must either be shut or open."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice and there is always a choice to choose. If only you would think of the summary of your life tomorrow today, you would yearn to live and leave a distinctive footprint and you would never stand for anything at all."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Life happens because of choices we make, if you want a better outcome; think before you create."

"Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one's self."

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"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."

"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."

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