#chose

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. ↗

— Herman Melville

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I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already! ↗

— Carmen Miranda

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There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play. ↗

— Brian Moore

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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. ↗

— Aaron Neville

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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair. ↗

— Edward Norman

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

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The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe. ↗

— Kim Novak

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It's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that level, and I try to account for how they don't. ↗

— Robert Nozick

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