Quotes About Choice

Ah, Khaster, do you not see? It is up to you entirely how you react to this. That is your control over the outcome.

I had a choice now. I could view him as an adversary or as a potential partner; it was entirely my decision. Avizah'e would accept either role without overt complaint. But whatever I decided, Beth would still be his

We had given it a name, a substance, and somehow, in doing that, we had condemned ourselves.

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I'd choose to have?

Christianity stands or falls on this tenet of the faith. If Christ is risen, he is all he said he was—the Messiah, the Son of God, the eternal king. If he isn't risen, he's dead—and irrelevant. Either way, we don't need more signs. We need to choose to believe what the evidence clearly shows.

How do we end up doing whatever it is we're doing? If people didn't already have an affinity for a task, would they pursue it? Do people start out saying to themselves, gee, I suck at this math stuff, I guess I'll become an astrophysicist.

Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.

You're the only one who can decide what's best for you.

Just because you love someone is no reason to marry them.

shoot you, or

A man? If I need a man, wouldn't you think I'd have one of my own? Must I wait for you?

And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you're poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.

some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

We aren't to blame for our fears, but it is up to us to decide how we'll handle them. We are responsible for choosing ways that lead us toward making the most of this gift of life.

When we become response-able—that is, when we learn to choose our responses freely and consciously—we are free to build a life of continuing growth and increasing happiness.

Being able to choose to act differently, even while feeling the old way, may be the most liberating growth you can accomplish.

If your thinking isn't leading your life toward healthy attitudes and positive feelings, you can choose to change the station.

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Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.

People who want to die will live, people who want to live will die.

Sometimes it just doesn't seem to matter that I know what I should be doing. I still do what I am gonna do.

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.