Quotes About Choice

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own.

Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

I guess it's a choice we make, she said. What's a choice? I asked. And she said, How much of the world we let in.

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

The thing about possibilities: there are some you want much more than others. Or only one you want much more than everything else.

I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

It's up to you, not fate.

It's up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

I realize that two years is not a long time. I realize that even ten years is not a long time. But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.

In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something that you have some choice over. I know how wrong it is.

I choose what to remember, and I am choosing Rhiannon. Again and again, I am choosing her, I am conjuring her, because to let go for an instant will allow her to disappear.

If there were no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.

Patrick: Is she worth the trouble? Cameron: I thought she was- Patrick: Either she is, or she isn't. So give it a shot, or don't give it a shot. But either way, don't let anyone make you feel like you don't deserve what you want. Remember that.