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You have the choice:

Learn from the experience,
or let it defeat you.

Make an ally,
or make an enemy.

Wisely use your resources,
or waste your chances.

Listen and consciously decide,
or be enslaved by reaction.

Open your heart and mind, 
or reject opportunity.

Raise your voice in question,
or passively accept.

Seize the day,
or put it off yet again.

Grow and prosper,
or stagnate and decline.

The choice is yours.
Copyright 2005-2008
K. Mercurio Gotthardt
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"The strongest principal of growth
lies in human choice." 
--Mary Ann Evans
(a.k.a.George Eliot)


The power to choose is a luxury we hold when we function as thinking human beings. 
However, the power to choose is also a responsibility.

These pages are dedicated to the exploration of choice--
of values, ideals, beliefs, lifestyles and perception. 

What will you choose?
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves."  --Alexander von Humboldt
"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."
--
Henry David Thoreau
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"Character is like a tree, and reputation its shadow.  The shadow is what we think it is; the tree the real thing." 
--
Abraham Lincoln
"So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and if this is living." 
--
Virginia Woolf
"I did not wish to live what was not life." 
--
Henry David Thoreau
We cannot intrinsically know why a person would make one decision as opposed to another, and so we cannot presume to judge motives or character.  Leave judgments to God, in whatever form you find Him, and in the meantime, do what you can to mend.
"The most important thing is to never stop questioning."
--
Albert Einstein

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Each of us will leave a mark:  will yours be art, or will it be a scar?
One day, I opened my blinds and the world looked different-- not because I had changed so much, but because I had started to announce who I was.

Of every brave act that has ever been performed,

Of every danger that has ever been confronted,

Of every conflict that has torn away our cells,

Of every wonder we believe life offers,

Nothing is so courageous, dangerous, painful,

powerful or amazing

as living the naked self.

May that self inspire all.
I really don't care if Thoreau was only camping out in his back yard.

It still had to be quieter than my house.
The ultimate honor is knowing you have worked to your fullest capacity.

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