Alternatives Quote by Walker Percy

As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be…

— Andre Alexis

“It is the phenomenon somethings called "alienation from self." In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something;…

— Joan Didion

You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you've set. Or you can live by accident, reacting…

— Michael Hyatt

“...human behavior is fragile and unpredictable and often at the mercy of the situation. Every individual still, of course, has a choice as to…

— Laurence Rees

We don't have to struggle or force situations to go our way. Instead, we can intend for everything to work out as it should,…

— Deepak Chopra

When we combine acceptance with self-responsibility we can then see that whenever we are in a painful or disturbing situation we have two choices:…

— Lee L Jampolsky

Some of us can accept others right where they are a lot more easily than we can accept ourselves. We feel that compassion is…

— Pema Chodron

Because everything we do and everything we are is in jeopardy, and because the peril is immediate and unremitting, every person is the right…

— Jonathan Schell

“You have to assemble your life yourself—action by action. And be satisfied if each one achieves its goal, as far as it can. No…

— Marcus Aurelius

“No matter what happens to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to it. When you form the…

— Robin S. Sharma

Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself.

— Walter Russell

The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to…

— R. Buckminster Fuller