Quotes About Choice

They'd cared for her, provided for her and loved her. If anything, the knowledge that she wasn't their flesh and blood made her love them all the more. They had chosen her,

Rosie and I went to Planned Parenthood together. "They'll have all kinds of information," she said. "It's not just for abortions.

They might have chosen to stay home in safety, but the true heroic deed was that they did not, even knowing the danger they faced.

Love) isn't about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room, Lexi. It's about being together. Love is a choice you make.

James: I think people pretty much determine their fates. I think people choose their lives. Lucy: I don't know. I think sometimes things happen to people that are beyond their control. Things that they don't want to happen. James: I know what you're saying. Sometimes random shit happens, but for the most part, people are where they are in life because they chose to be there.

If you stopped yourself every single time you were about to say, "I have to" and changed it to "I get to," it might change your entire experience.

Wouldn't it be great if God just blew an air horn in your ear and told you exactly what to do? It's that whole free will business. Gets in my way every time.

Take the money, no take the money, but leave my stove out of it.

The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn into a vampyre, which equals a monster in just about any human's mind. Choice Number 2: My body rejects the Change and I die. Forever. So the good news is that I wouldn't have to take the geometry test tomorrow.

We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

It isn't about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It's about being together. Love is a choice you make.

With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.

You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?

Some lives are not ours to hold on to; God makes His choices without us.

Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction. Sometimes, settling down

With the very decision to put his own way above all other ways he has already in large part fulfilled his liberating vocation. He has cancelled the validity of all other ways for himself. He has placed his law above all conventions.

We may think there is a safe road. But that would be the road of death. Then nothing happens any longer – at any rate, not the right things. Anyone who takes the safe road is as good as dead.

about love, a sudden decision not to, to pretend instead to a kind of choice.

I am less and less a creature of influences in myself which operate beyond my ken in the realms of the unconscious. I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality, my 'isness,' become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

To recognize that "I am the one who chooses" and "I am the one who determines the value of an experience for me" is both an invigoraring and a frightening realization.

To be responsibly self-directing means that one chooses—and then learns from the consequences. So clients find this a sobering but exciting kind of experience.

I wanted to find a field in which I could be sure my freedom of thought would not be limited