Quotes About Choice

Depending on what choices and designs you make right at this moment for today, your day will definitely change.

If we are aware, if we use the power of choice consciously and conscientiously, we can have an enormous impact on the direction of our societies and our civilization.

Basically it is your choice. No matter what spiritual path you have taken, no matter what experiences you have had, choice is still choice. Spiritual development doesn't happen automatically. It is choosing the eye of Tao that sees both the whole view of things from a distance and the core of reality from deep inside.

I really don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think everyone has greatness inside them. It is really just a matter of persistence - sticking to what you have envisioned until it is a reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set if gifts to fulfil some magnificent purpose for their lives. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

When you choose, it will happen.

Differentiation separates, but it also gives us the chance for reunification. Separation gives us the chance to truly value the experience of oneness, in much the same way that both light and shadow are needed to create the perception of form. If we had simply kept oneness from the beginning of time, there would have been no chance to choose oneness through our own free will, which is the choice we have to make right now.

Enlightenment is choice.

Being is a more awakened state than having. To be is to exist in a space of pure choice and creation

I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose for their lives. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

So I think I'll stay here a little while longer. There's plenty of time to get off this gurney and open that door and rejoin the rest of you. There's all the time I have left on Earth. There's the rest of my life.

When someone is beyond help, when there is no hope, it's a choice. When we know for certain, when the dogs warn us that a child is turning , it's still a choice.- -A choice between what and what?- -What do you think? If you were turning, if you knew that you'd try to kill your friends, people you loved...are you telling me that you'd choose to become one of them ?- -Between what and what?- Where there was life, there was hope.

A word of advice, sweetheart: when you're at the brink; when it's a choice between what's safe and what might be better, even if what's best is also scary, take a chance, honey.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

I have felt incredible energy and life force through my body, and I have really been reborn a happier, healthier, and more confident person. I have learned I can choose to focus on the darker side or the lighter side of all that is around me. I choose the lighter side and have the discipline to keep it up.

The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment

I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.

It's choice – not chance – that determines your destiny. " ?Jean Nidetch

Most people justify their actions with excuses they believe cancel out their own accountability. Most people believe they had no choice to do anything other than what they did.

Sometimes, I just wonder why we have to choose between the way we live and wanting to do something else with our lives.

He'd been a good man, but she understood the difference between the kind of love a woman was simply taken over by and the kind she chose in a rational decision.

Some people definitely have harder things happen to them, things that don't seem fair. But maybe it's about how we choose to respond to those things. To keep fighting. Or not.

But if there was anything Martha had come to understand about life, it was that people didn't get to choose their tragedy. Tragedy chose its people.

Isn't it better to just leave some doors in our lives closed?" "Not if you're always going to wonder what might have been behind them.

Does real love appear as a choice? Or does it arrive, inevitable, irresistible?