Quotes About Choice

I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.

The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it.

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees

Very often silence becomes the female drug of choice.

She used to say, you got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

The problem is [people] know what matters, but they don't choose it.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language, "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

But you didn't love him enough to marry him?" She smiled at me. "I loved him enough," she said. "I just loved my freedom more.

We make our moments, Ana, or we do not.

Our choice, as Florence Nightingale put it, is between pain and paralysis. A hard one. But it's only when we are willing to see the truth about our lives as women, however painful that truth might be, that we enter the portal of the journey.

If God said in plain language, "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language, I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die. A lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin. -Sue Monk Kidd

They don't know what matters and what doesn't I was gonna say, The problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it

That was the way mauma had lived her whole life. She used to say, you got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

I longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn't choose. But sitting here now, I knew if I'd accepted Israel's proposal, I would've regretted that, too. I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.' I

I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,' a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

I was gonna say, The problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it. You know how hard that is, Lily? I love May, but it was still so hard to choose Caribbean Pink. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

Most people prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty."10

I'll take nine steps and look up. Whatever my eyes light on, that's my sign. I saw a crop duster plunging his little plane over a field of growing things, behind him a cloud of pesticides parachuting out. I couldn't decide what part of the scene I represented: the plants about to be rescued from the bugs or the bugs about to be murdered by the spray. There was an off chance I was really the airplane zipping over the earth creating rescue and doom everywhere I went.

Which end of the needle are you going to be- the side held by string or the point that pierces the cloth?

you got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth. I