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I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde 
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
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Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
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Affirmation:
Today I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
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Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
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We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today, I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness.
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We CHOOSE our actions, thoughts, and feelings.
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Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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