Quotes About Choice

That kind of love requires effort and discipline. It is the choice to expend energy in an effort to benefit the other person, knowing that if his or her life is enriched by your effort, you too will find a sense of satisfaction -- the satisfaction of having genuinely loved another

Solomon, author of the ancient Hebrew Wisdom Literature, wrote, "The tongue has the power of life and death."2

That leads me to the second truth: Love is a choice and cannot be coerced. Dave and Mary were criticizing each other's behavior and getting nowhere. Once they decided to make requests of each other rather than demands, their marriage began to turn around

Love is the attitude that says, "I am married to you, and I choose to look out for your interests." Then the one who chooses to love will find appropriate ways to express that decision.

A comedy isn't about being funny, said Mrs. Baker. We talked about this before. A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know. Suppose you can't see it? That's the daring part, said Mrs. Baker.

If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted.

The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do." —John Carmack

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

We have a choice. We can simply defend what we have or create what we need.

Misery is optional.

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

You can lead a human to water, but you can't make him drink.

As was often the case with the ego's script, the plot added up to "damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Today I've made a major decision. I'm never going to die.

It's special because it's not special, and hence it makes Cohen feel special for choosing it.

Among the Ethiopians it is well known that monkeys deliberately do not speak so they will not be obliged to work.

Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country.

Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country. "You're negative arbing yourself," he used to say.

You don't want to end up in Troy," the

And you never felt like becoming an American? She didn't know why she was pressing him on this one point. That's for people without options, Ed said. Sorry, I mean... He trailed off. No, I get it. Nation in free fall.

Choice is a subtle form of disease. Don DeLillo, Running Dog

Well, then, it's quite simple . . . Christine Daaé shall leave this as she pleases and come back again! . . . Yes, come back again, because she wishes . . . come back of herself, because she loves me for myself! . . .

True independence is not based on fear. It contains within it an ability to be close to others, coupled with a choice to be free and autonomous.