“You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.”

“When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.”

“Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.”

“We must not, however, see everything with a pessimist’s eyes. Our eyes should be set upon a bright star and always expecting the best, rather than always expecting for the worst cases to happen.”

“It takes courage… to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.”

“Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”

“Myth therefore seems to choose history, rather than be chosen by it.”

“Choosing what we think rather than reacting to our emotions.”

“Everyone is mistaken, everyone lives in illusion. At best, we can admit a scale of fictions, a hierarchy of unrealities, giving preference to one rather than to another; but to choose, no, definitely not that…”

“One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.”