Quotes About Choice

People need freedom.

si no pagamos el precio por la libertad, terminaremos pagando el precio por la atadura. De cualquier manera pagaremos un precio

At this moment, each one of us is as close to God's throne of grace as we choose to be.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."1

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. Abraham Lincoln

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

We cannot control the temperaments we are born with; they are God's choice. We can work with the Holy Spirit to achieve balance, but basically we are who we are.

Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.

The message could not be any clearer; God provides, and we choose.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

Amy decided she was never watching Animal Planet again.

You know, sometimes the right thing isn't the thing you think is right. It's the wrong thing you're afraid to think of.

Okay," Amy said, blowing out a breath. "Our grandmother Grace left a will that gave us a choice between a million dollars and a hunt to find thirty-nine clues, which, when we put them together, will make us the most powerful people in the world. So we chose the hunt. Along with various assorted horrible Cahill relatives, all of whom have tried to kill us at one time or another." Shep sighed. "If you don't want to tell me, I guess that's up to you.

I have always been here," Qui-Gon said. "Being ready is your choice, my Padawan.

We are free to do as we are told.

Did he happen to select a color too? Blue. Blue? Victoria burst out, prepared to do physical battle for white. Madame nodded, her finger thoughtfully pressed to her lips, her own hand plunked upon her waist. Yes, blue. Ice blue. He said you are glorious in that color-'a titian-haired angel,' he said Victoria abruptly decided ice blue was a lovely color to be married in.

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in, risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. And if you can't play, you can't win.

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all. - Matthew Farrell

there is the door,use it....

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery.

He waited until she was standing directly across his desk from him before he said quietly, You've chosen a poor time to apologize,Lauren. I have to leave for a luncheon appointment in five minutes. Lauren almost choked on his outrageous presumption that she owed him an apology,but she merely favored him with an amused smile. I hate to bruise your ego, but I didn't come up here to apologize.

Mas reconhecer tudo isso e ainda assim encontrar a liberdade, fazer as escolhas, saber o que é e o que pode vir a ser, isso é o adulto responsável. Curvando-se à necessidade, deve escolher. Es- sa liberdade de escolha é a carga e a dádiva que todos recebem ao deixar a infância, a carga e a dádiva que todos levam quando atin- gem o fim da infância.

What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood identities? What kind of choice is it when you have to choose between becoming a mother and remaining yourself?

Eat it or wear it