Choose life

CHOOSE LIFE

Posted by Joe Alberts, Clinical Psychologist.

You are urged to choose life so that you and your children will live. (Deuteronomy 30:19)

Even though living life is becoming more challenging and you may feel increasingly out of control, you still retain CHOICE as the most important aspect of being human.  You choose moment by moment and create your reality through choice.  Choose then to make life affirming choices, consciously and mindfully.

See what great thinkers have to say:

I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.                                   Carl Jung  

You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety.            Abraham Maslow    

“I worry about my age” Worry is self-attack. In truth, no one will hold your age against you if you don’t. Remember, you are never too old, to love, to smile, to give a compliment, to think positively. Be ageless today. Let your inner light shine today.                                                                                                                        Eckhart Tolle  

Whenever you fall, pick something up.                                                                     Oswald Avery

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.                                                                                                         Winston Churchill

You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savour it.                                                                                                                                       Dr Wayne Dyer

It’s not what happens to you that matters. It’s how you respond to what happens to you that makes a difference.                                                                                                  Zig Ziglar

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.                                                                                                      Roald Dahl

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.                                                                                                                              Anon

Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.                                                                                                       James Cook

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.                        .                                                                                             Albert Camus 

Choosing life, even when faced with severe adversity, brings life 

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.                                                                                                                Elisabeth Kübler-Ross