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The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted by those who came before him. We are all trapped in circumstances into which we were born and choices that were made for us.
— George Friedman
The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum them and you make a pleasing sound. A harmonic.
— Stephen King
Freedom only exists in the choice. When you don't have the choice you are not free.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I want to see life through a spiritual perspective, so I can make choices that influence eternity.
— Alisa Hope Wagner
Who you are is why you choose the friends and situations in your life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We do not have control over what happens to us in life, but we do have control over how we chose to respond.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The purpose of your life is the purpose you bring to it choice by choice and recognition by recognition.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
By choosing to have a calm response to what seems negative you bring clarity and balance to your message.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
It is easy to know your purpose in life, because you choose your purpose in life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
America is like a roomy cage
—  just enough choice-space where the animal doesn't go wild and feels free.
Opportunity will only meet you in the domain of your chosen attitude.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Life is too fragile and valuable to be spent doing something you hate.
— Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It
Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You truly help others working on yourself. Remember that the only power you have is over your own choices. You simply have no power to choose for others unless they allow you to.
— Raphael Zernoff, I Am
Once you choose to love yourself then everything else will be perfect.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things about them from your mind. Don’t think about their looks, the intimate moments or their personality. Now, think about how they made you feel, how they improved your life and what virtues they possess that push you to want to become better. Did they bring you closer to God? Did they bring you to your life mission? Did they ever lie to you, betray you or made it impossible for you to feel comfortable speaking your mind? When you remove all the shine from a diamond, it becomes a glass rock. What value is it then? See beneath the surface and you will know who your future is with.
— Shannon L. Alder
Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person’s pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denial, games, jealousy or blame. When you are being psychologically, spiritually or emotionally abused by a person, and they don’t care how it hurts you, then it is time to leave what is polluting your relationship with God.
— Shannon L. Alder
I told you from the very beginning that it was a story about choices – wise choices, foolish choices, small yet momentous choices – for with choices come change, and with change comes opportunity , and both change and opportunity are the very cutting edge of the power of chaos. And yet as the undying ones know and the humans too often forget, even chaos cannot overcome the power of choice.
— Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo
If a conversation is not working, then you need to make a different choice. Stop what you are doing & do something different.
— John Stoker, Overcoming Fake Talk: How to Hold Real Conversations That Create Respect, Build Relationships, and Get Results
You should never have a relationship based on guilt over someone's poor choices.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We change the future with every choice we make,
— Kiersten White, Perfect Lies
When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for rainbows.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Let your life choices tell others of your wonderful God as you walk through life worshiping Him.
— Elizabeth George, A Woman's High Calling
Always choose to trust yourself and your ability to listen.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Pay attention: Are your daily choices in alignment with the life you want for yourself? If not, nothing will change.
— Steve Maraboli
In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too.
— Ryan Lilly
It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'll take the shoes," she said firmly.
— Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them
— Ann Packer, The Dive From Clausen's Pier
The next time someone gets on your nerves, remember your two choices: 1) share the problem; or 2) let them keep the problem to themselves.
— David P. Ingerson
Do you want to work like a slave and live like a king or do you want to work like a king and live like a slave? Your choice
— Nathanael Kanyinga
If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Beryl, on death: “No, you should never choose death, but it chooses you. Sometimes you know it’s coming, like my mother, and sometimes it takes you by surprise, like my friend Ariel’s uncle who got killed in a hunting accident. Sooner or later, we all get chosen, we all get taken from this world into the next. Whether we end up in Heaven or Hell, and what we do with our lives in the meantime—those are the choices we get to make.” – The Enemy’s Table
— Charlotte Woollard, The Enemy's Table
In all your life, only a few moments matter. Mostly you never get a good look at them except in hindsight, long after they've zipped past you: the moment when you decided whether to talk to that girl, slow down on that blind bend, stop and find that condom. I was lucky, I guess you could call it. I got to see one of mine face-to-face, and recognize it for what it was.
— Tana French, Faithful Place
But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequences, by self-doubt, by selfimage, by feelings of love and responsibility. Every possible choice seemed to have drawbacks, and sometimes he didn't understand why the drawbacks were drawbacks. It was very hard.
— Stephen King, The Shining
At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.
— Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle
Even in the darkest and most cruel person, there is still a kernel of good. and within the most perfect champion, there is also darkness. The question is, will one give into the dark or the light?
— Morgan Rhodes, Falling Kingdoms
If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
When I was three years old and in my mother's arms, she looked down at me and said, "Son, the way I'm taking care of you now, when you get old, always have a woman to take care of you like this." Dig this! All I'm goin' do is rest and dress, buy gasoline and lean. I'm goin' buy diamond rings and have the best of everything. I'm goin' pimp whores.
— Donald Goines, Whoreson
I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.
— Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
As you explore new opportunities and new directions, consider this:• How do I want to make a difference in the world?• How do I want to be remembered?• What kind of legacy do I want to leave behind?
— Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
I was told that this road would take me to the ocean of death, and turned back halfway. Since then crooked, round-about, godforsaken paths stretch out before me.
— Arkady Strugatsky, Definitely Maybe
It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.
— David Levithan, Love Is the Higher Law
Everyone has more choices than they are made to believe.
— Yesim Sireli
I distrust the perpetually busy, always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.
— Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
Practical management of your time includes taking responsibility of your choices.
— Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
A man of wisdom faces it all and makes his choices that actually can change a lot of things.
— Kateryna Kei, Raven Boy
The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea.
— Katherine McIntyre, By the Sea
Life is a choice. Your choices each day determine what outcomes happen in your life. It is by choice, not by chance, that will determine your life. An Unstoppable Life begins by taking responsibility for your choices.
— Thomas Narofsky, You are Unstoppable!: Unleash Your Inspired Life
Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.
— Ellen J. Barrier
When you’re in love with two people, always choose the second. The fact that you are constantly thinking of the second person makes it obvious that the first will never fulfill you, unless the second person did not fulfill you either. At this point, you have to choose the third person because God is getting a little tired of your inattention and indecisiveness, and is planning on sending a fourth person into your life just to slap you around with the bible for not entering the promised land.
— Shannon L. Alder
God is always willing to give you the best life possible. If you change your mind at any time you are free to go back to enjoying hell.
— Shannon L. Alder
We have to choose life. Choose risk. Choose love. The only safe place for our hearts is to dive deeply into the magnificent, eternal, ridiculous, overwhelming love that God has for us.
— Stasi Eldredge, Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You
Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Be at peace with your choices.They all serve you.
— Alan Cohen
Be good.See good.Choose good.It's a no-brainer.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices
—  take it or leave it.
But if I had to pick another person for her, I'd have to say you, Jess, since I hold you in such high regard. Yes, you would be a good match, but I am the lucky one this time! - Bryan Gifford
— Maggie Brendan, Twice Promised
And so it is, that if you believe it you can honestly choose what you want to be. But choose carefully, with your intuition, and have the courage to trust your choice! It is vital that we allow our self the privilege of quite space, for it is there we discover the passion that drives us to our heart's desire, to our destiny.
— Braam Malherbe, The Great Run: Conquering the Sleeping Dragon Within: Life's Lessons on the Run
What did that say about me? Had I become one of the monsters I thought I was fighting?“Things didn’t have to be like this,” I commented. “He could’ve made different choices.
— J.M. Northup, Fears of Darkness
People will go through their entire lives justifying every damn decision…they’ll fight for all the wrong things, until finally the right thing stares at them square in the face. That’s when the choices start to matter. Because in the end, you’re a creature of habit. So you may want to choose right, but choose wrong in the end — because you’re so damn used to it. It’s tragic, then again, life’s tragic
— Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic
We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter.
— Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I do, Augustus.I do.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.
— Elizabeth George, A Woman's Daily Walk with God
My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, "How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church?" I wonder if the abundance of opportunities to explore today is doing less to help make well-rounded disciples of Christ and more to help Christians avoid long term responsibility and have less long-term impact.
— Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will
Your life is not a simulation
—  it's the real game. Play wisely.
When your life feels like you're on a sailboat, with no wind to fill your sails, there are still choices. You can drop anchor and enjoy your surroundings. Start your motor, if you have one. Grab an oar and start paddling, or wait for the wind to fill your sails once again. There are always other choices while crossing the ocean of life…
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
You know you are on the right spiritual track when you realize that doing the right thing is not something you should do; rather, it is something you want to do. It is even something you have to do for your own peace, and the well-being of others.
— Shannon L. Alder
You've only got three choices in life: Give up, give in, or give it all you've got.
— Unknown Author 954
.Ensuring that young people get the right information that will enable them make the right choices is a responsibility all citizens must take seriously
— Oche Otorkpa, The Unseen Terrorist
My greatest fear is having to face God and explain to Him why I wasn't able to fulfill my purpose.
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
... I've run out of options. Stay with the lying psycho or work for the other lying psycho.
— H.M. Ward, The Arrangement 14: The Ferro Family
It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, it is our choices.
— J.K. Rowling
Be a good person, do good things, learn, and love other people, but do these things because you love yourself, God, life and people, not because you fear going to hell if you don’t. Keep the commandments (or whatever tenets you believe) because you want to be happy. Do it for you. God and the universe will unconditionally love you no matter which path you choose. You can learn whatever lessons you choose for yourself. If you want to learn things the hard way and experience fear, guilt and shame that is okay. But nothing you do (or don’t do) can separate you from love.
— Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
The universe uses every experience you have to help you grow and learn. No experience is wasted. Every choice you make and everything that happens to you because of other people’s choices become your perfect lessons. As you learn to trust this truth, you will experience less fear and more peace.
— Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
I can't say for sure if I'm better off, since I have no way of knowing what would have been. I could have traveled to exotic places and kissed exotic men in the moonlight. Or I could have ended living alone in a dumpy apartment with the flesh eating virus I contracted from a public toilet. Could haves are always a great unknown.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing.
— Richie Norton
Make a decision and then make it right. There just are no wrong decisions.
— Abraham Hicks
None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.
— Kenneth Oppel, Skybreaker
God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.
— Elizabeth George, A Woman After God's Own Heart
I guess that's the lesson in all of this-not to be eighty years old, looking back on your life, wondering if you made the right choice or how your life might have been different if you'd done one thing and not another.
— Mary Simses, The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe
When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing. (paraphrased)
— Abraham Hicks
The truth is there are always three choices: the right one, the wrong one and the one that is called "No Choice". As you may guessed, the "No Choice" one is a rule of a bad interpreter.
— Galina Nelson
My dad told me that God allows people to make their own choices and doesn’t override their free will. That is why bad things happen. People don’t do the things they should.
— J.W. Lord
I say this because all religions, accurately understood, will take away your fear of not being enough. I believe there is a way to understand the tenets of your religion, right now, that will take away your fear and make you feel loved and safe. The problem is that no matter what you believe or to which religion you belong, there are two ways you can experience your beliefs. There is a fear way you can experience your religion, and a love way to experience it. All religions can be experienced both ways. All life philosophies can be experienced both ways too.If you search your personal books of scripture, you will find both ideas equally represented. There will be verses or sections that validate a fear-based view of God and there will be some that validate a love-based view of God. Don’t be confused by this. Both ideas had to be represented for you to have free agency. Anything less than equal representation of each idea would take away your freedom to choose.
— Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
It is impossible to erase my choices.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.
— Ilchi Lee, Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living
Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is
—  it is anticipating how it will be perceived.
Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To keep our students reading, we have to let them.
— Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Sometimes love is not enough.
— Sarah MacLean, No Good Duke Goes Unpunished
She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever seemed to get for all her choices and all her freedom was more miserable. The autobiographer is almost forced to the conclusion that she pitied herself for being so free.
— Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.
— Anthony Horowitz, Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin
Aren't we all victims of fate?
— Sarah MacLean, No Good Duke Goes Unpunished
You talked to us about what kind of fifth-graders we wanted to be this year. How it was all in our choices, every minute of our days. How even grownups like you had to think about it sometimes, to be the person they wanted to be.
— W.H. Beck, Malcolm at Midnight
Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.
— Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes
Like the line of love, I thought. Once crossed you can't go back. Like the line between past and future. Or maybe really the line between past and now. The now my father spoke of. When I raced ... I would cross the line and there was no more thinking about what was going to be because it was. It happened that fast.
— Adam Berlin Belmondo Style
It was the human's fault that our worlds separated, and because they separated, I had to choose.  I hate choosing.  Why are humans always so insistent on picking one thing or the other?  If one must choose, why not pick the option that allows both?""Because our lives are short . . . so we have to make decisions . . . to move forward.  Because sometimes . . . you can't have everything.
— Addison Lane, Drowning Fergus
Some choices are harder than they appear. You can never say yes to one thing without saying no to another.
— Chris Coppernoll, A Beautiful Fall
Such a simple concept, yet so true. That which we manifest is before us, we are the creators of our own destiny.
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Life's too short to play it safe sometimes. (If he feels something special about Emma, he should go for it.)
— Chris Coppernoll, A Beautiful Fall
Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.
— Mark  Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns
Life is made of moments. and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact. Skipping class in favor of a taste of freedom, picking a prom dress because of the way it transforms you into a princess in the mirror. Even the nights you steal away from an open window, tiptoe silent to the end of the driveway, where darkened headlights and the pull of something unknown beckon. These are all small choices, really. Insignificant as soon as they’re made. Innocent.But then.Then there’s a different kind of moment. One when things are irrevocably changed by a choice we make. A moment we will play endlessly in our minds on lonely nights and empty days. One we’ll search repeatedly for some indication that what we chose was right, some small sign that tells us the truth isn’t nearly as awful as it feels. Or as awful as anyone would think if they knew.So we explain it to ourselves, justify it enough to sleep. And then we bury it deep, so deep we can almost pretend it never happened. But as much as we wish it were different, the truth is, our worlds are sometimes balanced on choices we make and the secrets we keep.
— Jessi Kirby, Golden
In life we always have some measure of control whether it be over our emotions or choices, but when it comes to cancer? The only thing you can control is how you respond to it
— Rachel Van Dyken, Ruin
We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.
— David McRaney, You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
I love you enough to tell you the truth whether you want to hear it or not, but what you do afterward is your choice alone.
— Ashley Ormon
If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.
— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Commonsense will never come from following your heart
—  wisdom is only stored in the mind.
You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.
— Alan Ashley-Pitt
Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
— Sydney J. Harris
I really wondered why people were always doing what they didn't like doing. It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel. Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything. Then, like, the absolute second you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half the size. . . . I figured that, on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed.
— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
When you’ve tired of me,” she said softly, precisely, “Apollo will still be my brother. Will still be there for me.”“I’ll never tire of you,” he said, knowing with every thread of his soul that he spoke the absolute truth.“Then prove it.”He knew what she asked with such an open and vulnerable face. Something within him shriveled and died... he’d been on the rack too long for a penance he wasn’t sure he could ever entirely pay. “You know…” His voice was hoarse, the croaking of a dying man. He licked his lips. “You know why I cannot.
— Elizabeth Hoyt, Duke of Midnight
To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision
— Søren Kierkegaard
Our debts don't leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.
— Jeff Jarvis
There is the right way and a million other ways. Eliminating the other options prevents limiting your results.
— Kyle Barger
We lust after the material things in life, then in a blink of an eye; the life which was once given is taken; is there a point in stressing over the small stuff.
— Epiphana Lewis
Give us being and feeling over having any day.
— Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
Understanding what I give up and knowing that I choose freely makes my choice more precious to me.
— Jennifer Beckstrand, Kate's Song
Sometimes you have to make choices, and they're imperfect, but they're the only choices you can make and live with yourself.
— Charles Sheehan-Miles, The Last Hour
Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.
— Kristin Hannah, Fly Away
You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.
— Taylor Swift
She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.
— C.M. Stunich, Losing Me, Finding You
It was one thing to stay in one place If you were happy and fulfilled- that was simply living the good life. But what if you weren't fulfilled?
— Syrie James, The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen
You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.''Are you saying I have no choice?''We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.
— Anthony Horowitz, Evil Star
What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?
— Isaac Marion, The New Hunger
We all are manufacturers in a way - making good, making trouble or making excuses.
— H. V. Adolt
I was asked a series of ques
— Julio Alexi Genao, When You Were Pixels
He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to be free of unhappiness-they would make the right choice. They would obey.
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
I didn’t know what 
— Julio Alexi Genao, When You Were Pixels
it turns out we were some peoplewhich has been chosen by God to be happy in a different way# beggars
— ys sroyer
We are made by the choices we make. We are defined, not by how or where we were born but what we make out of the "where" and "how"; not much of how we started but more of how we decide to end.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi
Do not be so attached to life otherwise you will end up struggling for life. Choice is yours.
— Nadair Desmar
The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.
— Susan Meissner, Lady in Waiting
Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item.
— Sheena Iyengar
Our nature gives us purpose, to reflect and act upon, responsibly by choice.
— Xavier Rosseel
You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.
— Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure
Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.Right. Yes. The usual choices.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?
— Maya Banks, Sweet Addiction
The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.
— Warren G. Bennis, On Becoming a Leader
Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Galway Kinnell recently said in an interview that a young poet has so many choices but an old poet must simply endure his chosen life.
— Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.
— John Lanchester, Capital
No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in stone
— Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone
Remember it is your choice
—  you can either wait for someone or end someone’s waiting.
If you want change and don’t make choices that reflect the change, you are making a choice to keep things the same.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
His hands are behind his back.'Choose,' he says.'I've already made my choice,' I say, and I grab the sleeve of his leather jacket and pull him inside.
— Jill Hathaway, Slide
It may not make sense to you, now, but when you get older you'll understand that sometimes things have to be done. Hard things. But everyone will hate the person who finally does them. But if they do them anyway, that's the mark of true honor.
— Rhiannon Held Silver
The simple rule: some get saved, but most don't. The choices are important before the years begin to go so very fast.
— Jill McCorkle, Life After Life
I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.
— Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders
The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.
— Will Davis, My Side Of The Story
Life is a treasure-chest of opportunities, choices, and time. Unfortunately, the choice many people make is to argue about the details of the chest instead of seizing the treasure within it.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.
— Andy Warhol, A Retrospective
My father warned me that you’re an interloper. He told me I should make you leave, since we’re no longer married and you’re not my concern,” he says. The thought gives me a chill. Yes, I’m sure Vaughn would love for his son to abandon me, so that Vaughn can swoop in and reclaim me the second I’m alone. But Linden adds, “I told him that wouldn’t be a good idea either.
— Lauren DeStefano, Sever
He shrugged, "...my conscience rests easiest if I do only what I see as best in the moment...
— Anihyr Moonstar
The ripple effect. You throw a pebble into the water and it creates ripples. Your action was to throw the pebble—the representation of your choice. That’s all that you can control. But not the ripples—those are the consequences of your choice. And that you cannot control.
— Michele Bardsley
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
— Isaiah 64 8
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but I chose neither one. Instead, I set sail in my little boat to watch a sunset from a different view that couldn't be seen from shore. Then I climbed the tallest mountain peak to watch the amber sun through the clouds. Finally, I traveled to the darkest part of the valley to see the last glimmering rays of light through the misty fog. It was every perspective I experienced on my journey that left the leaves trodden black, and that has made all the difference.
— Shannon L. Alder
The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life.
— Shannon L. Alder
He is worse than the others, I show. He is worst of all of them.Because–Because he knew he was doing wrong. He felt the pain of his actions–But he did not amend them, shows the Sky.The rest are worth as much as their pack animals, I show, but worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
— Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions
—  that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life.
Choose to do more than just exist
—  choose to live.
Which do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices?
— Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued Devotional: 60 Days of Imperfect Progress
You are more than the choices that you make, You are more than the sum of your past mistakes, You are more than the problems you create.
— Tenth Avenue North
Good-bye,” I say to Grandfather, and to my father, and I hold the tube in the river and pause a moment. We hold the choices of our fathers and mothers in our hands and when we cling on or let them slip between our fingers, those choices become our own.
— Ally Condie, Reached
People always have choices. They might not always have options, but they do have choices.
— Kasey Michaels, This Can't Be Love
Our decisions define our lives. We are the people we choose to be in the ways that most matter. Choose wisely. You will live with the choices you make.The choices you make define your character. And your character defines how you feel about yourself. That image of you is projected in hundreds of ways to others.
— Vicki Hinze
I'm going out to find her, to make things right, or atleast properly wrong.
— Neal Shusterman
It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are is God's providential arrangement - God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made our of them.
— Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club
Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me?” I ask.“We thought he might,” my mother says.“Why didn’t you stop him?”“We didn’t want to take away your choices,” my mother says.“But Grandfather never did tell me about the Rising,” I say.“I think he wanted you to find your own way,” my mother says. She smiles. “In that way, he was a true rebel. I think that’s why he chose that argument with your father as his favorite memory. Though he was upset when the fight happened, later he came to see that your father was strong in choosing his own path, and he admired him for it.
— Ally Condie, Reached
Thirteen years of friendship had bonded us together more thoroughly than if we had been born of the same mother. Even at this late stage, I was unwilling to let him go.
— Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura
Well, I guess it’s all in God’s hands anyway. He has a way of making things turn out,” Mattie asserted.“Yes, He does. Doesn’t He? Thank you for reminding me of that, Mattie.” She gave her friend a hug. “Sometimes it’s hard not to second guess the choices I’ve made.”“I know what you mean. When life brings changes, I think we tend to do that more.” Mattie wiped away a tear. “I miss the old life sometimes, but I know this is God’s will for me. And God’s will is always best, whether we realize it at the time or not.
— J.E.B. Spredemann, Amish by Accident
Circumstances don't determine who you are, or what you will be. Only you do that. You either decide, or you don't. Even the decision not to decide was still yours.
— Julie-Anne
You are never wrong doing the right thing.
— Wayde Goodall, Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All
Do what is right because it is right.
— Nancy Slocumb
And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.
— Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity
There were always choices. I’d made a string of bad ones myself. At least I could admit that.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx
The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.
— Emma Raveling, Billow
The direction you choose to face determines whether you're standing at the end or the beginning of a road.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.
— Jim Butcher, Death Masks
The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow."I've got to go back, haven't I?""That is up to you.""I've got a choice?""Oh yes." Dumbledore smiled at him. "We are in King's Cross, you say? I think that if you decided not to go back, you would be able to…let's say…board a train.""And where would it take me?""On," said Dumbledore simply.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
— Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between
We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do catch up with our hearts and then we think we have made a decision
— Muhammad Asad, The Road to Mecca
Freedom is anxiety's petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, "Even if you don't want to make choices, you have to, and you can never be sure you have chosen correctly." Freedom says, "Even not to choose is to choose." Freedom says, "So long as you are aware of your freedom, you are going to experience the discomfort that freedom brings." Freedom says, "You're on your own. Deal with it.
— Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.
— Joanne Harris, Runemarks
Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done or said. It is all the experiences and people you missed out on in life that you will feel the most regretful for in the end. God will forgive you of your mistakes, but there is nothing to forgive if you have never even tried, done or said anything that made a difference in your life or others.
— Shannon L. Alder
Some people make choices hoping for the best
—  Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.
Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
Today is the day to stop, look around, realize where you are in relation to where you want to be, change direction if needed and move forward with faith in God and in yourself.
— Toni Sorenson
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
— Stephen R. Covey
We try so hard because it is all we've ever known, I thought. We try to fit ourselves into this world so that we don't seem more different than different, an oddity in a sea of normality. We try because it is only instinct, but we obey because it is law.
— Nadège Richards, Burning Bridges
His ambition was not to become wealthy or to be well known, an image which society for some reason dictates each individual should prescribe to, instead his only ambition was to be at peace with himself, if he could achieve that than anything else he might need would follow. From now on he would question all things in life, but especially the rules and regulations of all authority institutions; he would take nothing on face value and only would accept what he personally knew to undeniably be true.
— Andrew James Pritchard, Charnel House
Life truly becomes exactly what you make it. All the choices lead to the reality you are experiencing.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to The Laws of Creation
ThinkWhen did it go wrong?The break-in?No, before that.The party?That was part of it, but that wasn't when it started.Zack?Of course, yeah, it would be easy to say it was Zack. But that's not it, is it?Before Zack.Before Ryan. Before Max and Derrick or that whole thing with the wallet.Before Ashley.Before tenth grade even began.And you're thinking, this can't be it.
— Charles Benoit, You
We are faced with choices every moment of our lives. Whatever choice we exercise must make us comfortable and at peace. Choices that are made out of fear and anxiety often do not lead to right action---Sasha Samy, Transcending Abuse & Betrayal.
— Sasha Samy, Shadow To Light: Transformational Journeys From Abuse & Betrayal To Empowerment
With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred.
— Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura
It's not our talents that make us safe or dangerous, it's our choices.
— Josephine Angelini, Dreamless
There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.
— Andy Andrews, The Heart Mender: A Story of Second Chances
For Time calls only once, and that determines all.
— Sophocles, Electra
Impulsive isn’t something you choose. It’s something youare.
— Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove
She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.
— Candice Proctor, Night in Eden
We all have the same 24/7. What we do with our time becomes our priority. Choose what you do with your time and do not lead a life by default
— Patt Hollinger Pickett
...When a choice will make a real difference in our lives—obvious or not—and when we are living in tune with the Spirit and seeking his guidance, we can be sure we will receive the guidance we need to attain our goal.
— Dallin H. Oaks
But when we make choices that are different than what our friends are doing, it might seem to them that we are questioning their choices - even if it has nothing to do with them.... And what is the sense in feeling guilty about making different choices than our mothers and the other women before us? Our mothers did the best they could with what they had available to them. Our choices, if different from theirs, are not a denouncement of theirs.
— Jennetta Billhimer, Wise Childbearing: What You'll Want to Know as You Make Your Birth Choices
Your everyday supermarket now carries roughly 40,000 items - twice as many as a decade ago. There are so many products, so many brands and sub-species of those brands, that no consumer is safe from the bombardment of choice overload.A huge variety of product offering doesn't aid consumers. It is insanity. From the vast array of athletic shoes to bagels to portable CD players to bottled water, there quickly becomes a point at which mega-choices, like mega-information, do not serve the consumer; they abuse him.
— Jeff Davidson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done
This is your time. Make it count by dedicating your time to your Heavenly Father.
— Kristen Oaks
Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.
— Catherine Sanderson, Petite Anglaise
there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
— Sigmund Freud
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.
— Neal Shusterman, Unwind
The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow