Quotes About Choice

I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

There was something in front of her, perhaps happiness: Mary hesitated, like someone in a fairy-tale being offered a tempting dish that might be poisoned. Was that it? Again she didn't know. She disapproved of fairy-tale. They were not rational.

You will find in the end, my dear friend, that there is nothing more oppressie than freedom.

Freedom is a thing you make', he says, with sudden vehemence. 'You maki it by what you do. That's about the only thing that is left us in this world.

A man cannot split himself in two, Will.' He paused. 'One half will die, sooner or later.

No one can live life for you

We are each our own devil, and we make the world our hell. OSCAR WILDE

It's never too late to step off a path and look for a different route.

The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.

Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?... ...My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Elizabeth and sleep next to no one at all.

Fine. We can make it a combination Christmas and birthday present. You decide. I'll leave it up to you". If it were up to him, he would give him everything: sun and moon, eternal happiness, serene and uncomplicated.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

We seem to assume that no one really wants to be a girl or a woman, and therefore some people, say female-bodied people, must be forced into these abject genders

Choice is at the heart of service.

MANTRAS FOR DAILY LIVING ?I give myself fully to each moment. ?Discipline is quality, not quantity. ?I can always make a choice. ?There is enough time. ?My yoga practice is discipline in action.

If I wanted to influence their behavior, it had to be through my own. The only real control I had was the choice of my own words and actions, including being clear about my expectations and needs.

Fauve clenched her fists and bounded up from her bed, her gloom vanished in a rush of combat, which translated itself into the one eternal question which can make any female creature forget even such profound questions as the brevity of youth, the fleetingness of time. What was she going to wear ?

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

Tell me," he said, smiling, "Would you really have danced with the duke?" She relaxed, the danger past. "Yes. But he was my second choice. You, sir, didn't seem to have much interest in me." "Ah. There you are very wrong." His smile faltered, and then he began to lean forward, as if he would kiss her again. But the door opened, and a loud group of young men pushed into the courtyard, filling the garden with glimmering light and sound as they laughed amongst themselves.

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.

Always, emotional freedom involves choosing where you put your attention.