"No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction."

-- Allison Winn Scotch

#Good Life Quotes #Smart Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“LIFE is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure, providing he forgets not the God who created him and who expects a spiritual obedience and observation of the moral laws that He has inspired.”
“Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through. Only the loss of a loved one and moving are even in its class, difficulty-wise-and divorcing generally involves both of those as well. Even when you are the one initiating the divorce, the enormous changes that result are bound to throw you off and leave you feeling, at the very least, a bit lost.”
“The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.”

Source : The Independent on Sunday, June 24, 1990.
“True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.”
“We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.”
“I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.”

Source : Interview with A.D. Amorosi, mycitypaper.com. June 12, 2003.
“Don't ever lose sight of who you are and your own power.”
“I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage.”

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