You can stop and remove the pebble, or you can continue to walk and let the pebble irritate your foot and cause pain. The choice is yours.

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"In examining our own lives, we might be able to spot the heavy weight of yesterday's deeds that we persist in carrying around with us. But continuing to carry harsh and negative feelings from the past can be like picking up a pebble in your shoe while you are out walking. You can stop and remove the pebble, or you can continue to walk and let the pebble irritate your foot and cause pain. The choice is yours."

- John Marks Templeton

Awareness

"Service to others is a creative process that releases energy which can manifest itself in many ways and bring deeper meaning into your life. When we love deeply enough, coupled with the desire to be helpful to those around us and to our world, we often find fulfillment and true closeness with others that can satisfy our desire to reach the heart of them."

- John Marks Templeton

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"Because God has given you your agency, you can choose many directions to go and still lead a fulfilling life. Mortality is an open-ended, choose-your-own-adventure story. You have commandments, you have covenants, you have inspired prophetic counsel, and you have the gift of the Holy Ghost. That is more than enough to lead you to mortal happiness and eternal joy."

- Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Choice

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Choice

"If you begin to regret, you’ll dull your future decisions and let others make your choices for you. All that’s left for you then is to die. Nobody can foretell the outcome. Each decision you make holds meaning only by affecting your next decision."

- Erwin Smith

Choice

"It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J.K. Rowling

Choice

"Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway."

- Robert Downey Jr.

Choice