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Tom Robbins quote: "Success can eliminate as many options as failure."
Success can eliminate as many options as failure. Tom Robbins
Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it. James Patterson
Desmond Tutu quote: "Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not..."
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional. Desmond Tutu
I wonder if it's putting on someone else's skin for a while that she likes so much, or if it's the option of being able to send back a circumstance that just doesn't suit you. Jodi Picoult
James Patterson quote: "The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to..."
The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option James Patterson
Maya Angelou quote: "You should never make someone a priority who views you as an..."
You should never make someone a priority who views you as an option. Maya Angelou
Stephenie Meyer quote: "When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no..."
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options." -Bella Stephenie Meyer
The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined. Noam Chomsky
Chris Rock quote: "Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a..."
Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options. Chris Rock
It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure. Tom Robbins
Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life. Peter Singer
People accepted the worst from each other, screaming and slapping. Divorce and abortion were never a plot option. If this was love or just inertia, Misty couldn't tell. Chuck Palahniuk
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. Marcus Aurelius
When I turned thirty, I briefly flirted with the notion of undergoing sexual reassignment surgery. Once again, I was ready for a big change in my life. Plus, I was having a really difficult time meeting gay guys who didn’t seem gay yet were still caustic. So I figured, as a woman I would have a whole new pool of men from which to fish. I decided that I would probably opt for the self-lubricating vagioplasty option. …the plus side of this vagina was that it was, like the name implies,... Augusten Burroughs
..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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