Quotes About Choice

Love is real. In every single moment, there are only two choices: love or fear. I can tell you from experience that love is exponentially more powerful. And a hell of a lot more fun.

To love is to choose.

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.

When we love someone it is because we built that feeling, bit by bit. It's a choice. It's what we make only for ourselves.

the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love

It happened that at the late age of twenty-seven I had run away from home. High time, you might say; but rebels can't always be choosers.

She could have lived in comfort, but I doubt if it occurred to her to try.

I guess it's always uncomfortable to discover you're not as individual as you thought. But it really bothered me. From one perspective, I was an independent animal, exercising free will in order to elicit predictable reactions from an inert vending machine. But from another, the vending machine was choosing to withhold snacks in order to extract predictable, mechanical reactions from young men. I couldn't figure out any objective reason to consider one scenario more likely than the other.

It was pointless to ponder who I was because I was whichever combination of chemicals happened to be sloshing around at that time. So I decided not to search for a true self. I decided to choose who I wanted to be.

You've delegated the ability to make up your mind.

I will not be what I was made, but what I make.

Those who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

You can't blame anyone else, not the plan's architect, not your commanding officer, no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

As with so many of my critical decisions, this one came with a healthy dose of "duh!

Ivy was a model, she chose her clothes to match the color of the car, I think, and the color of the car to match her lipstick or the other way around, I'm not sure which it was.

What's the difference between contraception and abortion? Both are expressions of the human will not to have children.

Children are something we want or don't want.

Well, now, kid, I'll tell you", Livermore said. "Every occupation has its aches and pains. If you keep bees, you get stung. Me, I get worried. It's either that or stay poor. If I've got a choice between worried and poor, I'll take worried anytime.

Don Moore and I outlined the following steps for choosing the right option among multiple choices:17 Define the problem. Identify the relevant criteria. Weight the criteria. Generate alternatives. Rate each alternative on each criterion. Compute the optimal decision.

When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.