Anne Lamott Quotes

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

If we become aware of what's happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.

I guess it's a choice we make," she said. "What's a choice?" I asked. And she said, "How much of the world we let in.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind.

You... and only you choose your thoughts.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Your will shall decide your destiny.