Quotes About Choice

We're called to "dare greatly" every time we make choices that challenge the social climate of scarcity.

Heartbreak is unavoidable unless we choose not to love at all. A lot of people do just that.

authenticity is not something we have or don't have. It's a practice—a conscious choice of how we want to live. Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

Rather than risking feeling disappointed, they're choosing to live disappointed.

Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recognize that choosing whom I see and whom I don't see is one of the most hurtful functions of privilege.

As Carl Jung said, "I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

Still today, the more I pay attention to my life and the messages from the edges, the more I'm able to choose a way of life that doesn't demand constant vigilance and preparedness. And when there are things outside my control that do demand high alert—COVID, for example—I know running away from the pain and anxiety is way more

like many desirable ways of being, authenticity is not something we have or don't have. It's a practice—a conscious choice of how we want to live. Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

Interestingly, research shows that in the short term, we tend to regret bad outcomes where we took action. However, when we reflect back over the long term, we more often regret the actions we didn't take—what we didn't do—and we think of those as missed opportunities.

If what matters to us is what we're concerned about, then play and rest is important. If what matters to us is what other people think or say or value, then it's back to exhaustion and producing for self-worth. Today, I choose play and rest.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced

when we reflect back over the long term, we more often regret the actions we didn't take—what we didn't do—and we think of those as missed opportunities.

As Carl Jung said, "I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become." Even

you can choose courage or you can choose comfort but you can't have both

I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

The invitation is to think about the intention behind our choices

If we understand how larger systems are contributing to our shame and we choose only to change ourselves, we become as negligent as the person who says, "I'm not changing myself, because the system is bad." Context is not the enemy of personal responsibility. Individualism is the enemy of personal responsibility.

I had to dig very deep and make the conscious choice to believe… to believe in myself and the possibility of living a different life.

We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both.

courage insists that I honor it by choosing my voice over my comfort.

Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a litter better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

Now, at that moment, I was building trust; I was there for her. I was connecting with her rather than choosing to think only about what I wanted. There are the moments, we've discovered, that build trust. One such moment is not that important, but if you're always choosing to turn away, then trust erodes in a relationship--very gradually, very slowly.

I'm inspired by your courage, to say nothing of your wisdom and your beauty as a human being. Sometimes places like this destroy those things, but even though you've lost so much, here you are, whole, standing on your own. From tomorrow, you can choose.

Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.