“One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.”
Sheldon Kopp (1929–1999) American psychotherapist
Source: Even a stone can be a teacher (1985), p. 11
“The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.”
Within the Context of No Context (1980)
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