Quotes About Choice

Japanese women are refusing to take birth control pills, opting to leave contraception up to men. Do you know what they call women who leave birth control up to men? Mothers.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

The point about positive thinking, and later cognitive behavioural therapy, was that you could choose how you thought about life, and that how you thought about it changed not only your interpretation of what happened, but also the actual course of events.

Apparently there is a python magazine that is about computers, and a python magazine that's about really big snakes and if you get one you don't really want the other.

It was almost the cruelest thing he did, not to leave me when I still had the chance of meeting someone else, when I still had a bit of juice left in me. Me and the woman who wrote that book—we both know we're better than that.

Because life is like that, isn't it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you'd never do anything ever again. And some people don't. Some people go through life not really deciding to do much, not wanting to, always too fearful of the consequences to try something new. Of course, that in itself is also a decision.

Never say no when you really want to say yes.

I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody else's first choice

Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?

Don't marry him. Don't be with him. Be with me.

It's a known fact that in life, you can't have everything. In my heart I knew I loved them both, as much as possible to love two people at the same time. Conrad and I were linked, we would always be linked. That wasn't something I could do away with. I knew that now—that love wasn't something you could erase, no matter how hard you tried.

It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.

What now?" Conrad didn't let me off the hook that easy. He said, "What now with you and Jeremiah or with you and me?

You know how I know she's your most important person? You pick her every time.

It wasn't was easy as picking one over the other. Nothing ever was. It wasn't as though I'd even had a choice, not really.

Make love or make war shug, but make something happen.

It doesn't work like that. You don't just pick your song. The song picks you. Like the Sorting Hat.

She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her, they were one and the same.

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody's first choice.

You decide who, how far, and how often, if ever.

What I really want to say is Peter will always pick Lara Jean over Genevieve.

If I win... do you know what I would wish for?" Don't say it, don't say it. Don't say the thing you can't take back. I'd wish we never started any of this." The words echo in my head, in the air.

el amor es hacer elecciones valientes todos los días. Eso es lo que hizo ella. Siempre eligió el amor; siempre escogió la aventura. Para ella, eran una y la misma.