2. Life Is the Sum of All Your Choices. Albert Camus

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Making Choices Introduction

After viewing the various video clips of people making difficult choices, read the following quotes.

1. “Choices are the hinges of destiny.” –Edwin Markham

2. “Life is the sum of all your choices.” –Albert Camus

3. “It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

4. “We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.” ― J.K. Rowling

5. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” ― Tennessee Williams

6. “Changing is what people do when they have no options left.” ― Holly Black, Red Glove

7. “The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.” ― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

8. “It's up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

9. “Be careful of your actions. You never know when you’re creating a memory.” –Ricki Lee Jones

10. “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” –Denis Waitley

11. “Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.” –Richard Bach

12. “We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.” –Thomas Merton

13. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”—Theodore Roosevelt

14. “The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”—Norman Swarzkopf 15. “Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Now, for three of the video clips you viewed, select a quote which best describes the situation faced by the character(s) in the clip. First, explain the dilemma faced by the character(s) in the film clip, and then explain how the quote exemplifies their decision OR possible decisions. An example has been done for you.

Video Clip Quote Explanation The Patriot 1. “We must make In the video clip, the men in the church are asked to choose the choices that whether or not to sit and let the king mistreat them or to rebel enable us to fulfill against him and join the war. The quote represents this video the deepest clip from “The Patriot” because those men had said they capacities of our wanted freedom, but had only talked about it, not taken action. real selves.” If they truly were brave and wanted freedom, then they would Thomas Merton stand up and fight for it. The quote implies that the choices we make allow us to fulfill who we really are. In this clip, the men believed in their freedom, so they stood up and made the choice that would help them be who they really were: patriots.