My Chosen Family

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus

Affirmation: It is my choice to care deeply about others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.
I renounce all assumptions and expectations.
I thoughtfully consider all possibilities.
I CHOOSE with courage, awareness, consciousness, and compassion toward all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything we do is a choice! In every instant, we are making a choice about what we will do in that instant (as well as a choice about what we will think in that instant). We may choose to turn off and shut down our conscious attention, and allow the autopilot of our habits and instincts to make our choices, but they are still choices.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My Chosen Family 
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
_ Jonathan Lockwood Huie