Quotes About Choice

Plastic pollution free world is not a choice but a commitment to life - a commitment to the next generation.

Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

Where does a mistake begin?" his wife asks at the start of the book. "Did my mistake begin with the boat? Or my marriage itself?

Michael and I both recognized we had problems, we just couldn't agree on the solution. I think what was happening was, I wasn't just talking about the implausible plan to walk away from our house and the kids' schools and Michael's job, no matter how assured we would be of getting these things back. I was wondering, whether we were to go or to stay, what would we do— about us?

If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission?

There can be no question of mistake or error raised before men who consider whatever they choose to do to be in itself the greatest of virtues.

Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster.

There is no freedom about this: the world gives, and you just take what you're given, with no opportunity to choose.

He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was beset with uncertainty; in fact he had no idea what was being asked of him

I don't want to end my life, he said, but I'd rather end it while I am still myself, rather than become less and less of a person.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." —Sydney Harris1

Real deprivation is not being able to afford the things that are high on your priority list.

The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?

Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet. Sarah L. (Sadie) Delany

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

Then again, Einstein (pretty good at math) was also quite clear when he concluded, There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Honestly—who puts a hamburger next to diet tofu curry unless they're trying to buy your soul?

some people would sacrifice their biggest love for a bigger hate.

It hit you, is all," he said. "What you've given up your

I really do," she said, not looking at him. "Because once he stays here tonight, I'll have a constant reminder that you picked him and not me, and you did it before you even knew you could have him." He grimaced. "It was a near thing," he told her, thinking about how pretty she'd looked in the sunshine and how cold she looked now. "Only because I could have your babies, Joe. And I still lost by a mile. C'mon.

swear to God, Adam, every time I think this is hopeless and I was deluded to even try to get close to you, you say or do something that is so fucking beautiful it's like I've got no choice.

The little girl in her lap took a drink of mom's soda and pushed a mop of the brightest red hair out of her face. "I don't wanna be a knight. I wanna be a princess!

She sighed. "Okay. But unless something else good comes along, I'm stopping at eight!

He's… he's the reason I didn't get a bike when I was eleven, so I could have a Sammy now.