Quotes About Choice

My body is my own, to be shared or withheld as I choose.

I'd choose spending a few minutes with you and dying tomorrow over having a lifetime without you". -Justin Vallerand

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

Your staying or leaving doesn't impact the premise of your demand, which seems to be that I have no control over myself. That's wrong. I decide who destroys me, not you, Mark Compton.

One reckless note can change everything.

the minute he'd said 'yes' to this assignment, Royce had said 'no' to Lauren.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

How do we fall in love? ... How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us. We come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son. We tie ourselves together through moment. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else ever will.

We all have freedom of choice. Over and over again, minute by minute. How will you live your life? For yourself Or for others? For something good? For love?

in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.

The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.

A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses.

Every decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you're the one in charge of the universe.

We do not choose the vessel we're given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside," she say.

The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.

no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future. The

no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future.

Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make.

Ultimately, it's not so much what life deals you as what you choose to own that matters, a spiritually searching law clerk had once said to

Who chooses the schedules we keep? We do, I guess. Although, so often it seems as if there isn't any choice. If we aren't constantly slapping new paint on all the ramparts, the wind and the weather will sneak in and erode the accomplishments of a dozen previous generations of the family. The good life demands a lot of maintenance.

I understood that feeling of regret, the sense that there was a moment when the paths divided and you chose one over the other.