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The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life’s changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others. This is our choice. Although often perceived as a weakness, being open and surrendering to the experience of the present moment is our greatest strength. By authentically living Life in the Now, we submit to Divine guidance where we find the freedom to see everything equally and sacred in Truth.
— Peter Santos, Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook
Surrender isn’t a one-time event but a moment-by-moment choice.
— Paula Hendricks
Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.
— Gregory Maguire
Aside from the inescapable realities of birth and death, we’re responsible for the paths our lives take. We each make our own choices.
— Alissa Johnson
Dorian said, 'If you do the right thing twice, it will cost you your life. ' Blint said, 'There are things more valuable than life.' The count said, 'You can't pay for all you've done. But you aren't beyond redemption. There's always a way out. And if you're willing to make the sacrifice, the God will give you the chance to save something priceless.
— Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
Victory is possible, sisters, not by figuring out how to make this an easy process, but by choosing - over and over and over again - the absolute power available through God's truth.
— Lysa TerKeurst
I know how you feel. But people can't surpass their true design. Our talents, our gifts. All programmed into us from the start. I know this because since birth... I was made to destroy.
— Charles   Lee, The Way To Dawn: End of Days
Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.
— China Miéville, King Rat
Danger is real, fear is a choice
— Will Smith
Have a choice, learn the process and then go for the success.
— Debasish Mridha
Every turning point in a person's life isn't reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
I'm blessed when someone who I loved and trusted dropped me off, because I have a good choice to think and great lesson to learn
— Sivaprakash Sidhu
To react is one's choice.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
There will always exist inequalities which will appear unjust to those who suffer from them, disappointments which will appear unmerited, and strokes of misfortune which those hit have not deserved. But when these things occur in a society which is consciously directed, the way in which people will react will be very different from what it is when they are nobody's conscious choice.
— Friedrich A. Hayek
Sure, genetics do play a role in alcoholism. You're more likely to be an alcoholic if one or both of your parents are also alcoholics. But that's just one part of the equation; the other part is your behavior. You can't become an alcoholic if you never take a drink. So if you know you're predisposed to addiction because you have a family history, then just don't get started, and you'll never find yourself on that path.
— Gaby Rodriguez
There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.
— Jo Walton, Among Others
Happiness is not a destination but a choice.
— Debasish Mridha
When you are in doubt and lost, to find the way, chose love.
— Debasish Mridha
I believe that the ‘love of your life’ is just a person that you chose. You choose them because you believe that they’re it.
— Dawn Lanuza, The Boyfriend Backtrack
There are just two directions in life, the one which is safe but boring, and the other which is delicate but exciting. Now ask yourself, which path will you go?
— Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.
— Shannon L. Alder
Never choose a situation which is a burden to your command only to satisfy fellows' standards
—  rather choose a situation that may be difficult but is compliment to your will.
This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Happiness is a choice, because being so much blessed doesn't make you happy, contentment does.
— Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Facing different options, you must always choose the one that makes you most uncomfortable, the one that creates a tingling feeling of excitement inside your body.
— John duover, Rites
You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear me. Anyway, you did, and now I'm afraid the time for choice is behind us both.
— Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl
Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Success is an outcome of conscious choices pursued consistently and tirelessly.
— Vishwas Chavan
I have a choice. That’s why I’m still here.
— Amy Neftzger, The Ferryman
I couldn't find my cup of tea.So probably, I've been simply taking a sip from everyone else's cup. May be it shouldn't matter as long as there is tea to drink. Or should it?
— Sanhita Baruah
When we say ‘Yes’ to something we are always saying‘No’ to something else. So in that way, we never ‘don’t do’ anything. We are just doing something else.
— Malti Bhojwani, Don't Think Of a Blue Ball
Everyone is given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
Whether you are lost in the darkness or dance in the light is entirely up to you.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose.
— Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky
In general, it’s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the Illusion of Choice. Other than that they’re looking for numbness, so be ready to sedate. Drugs, booze, television, shopping, etc…
— Geoffrey Wood Grimrack An Infernal Epistolary
Death is not an option. Death is inevitable. But death is a choice.
— Lik Hock Yap Ivan
You cannot simultaneously want to eat a chocolate cake every day in front of the TV and want to be slim. You cannot want to be single and carefree and want to be in a loving, exclusive relationship
— Malti Bhojwani, Don't Think Of a Blue Ball
I say “illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing.
— Geoffrey Wood
James is all I have. I chose James. He has to be right. Please let him be right.
— Kiersten White, Perfect Lies
As a rule, Americans are big on that word “choice” and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose.
— Geoffrey Wood
Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins.
— Geoffrey Wood
Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God, who has created us to simply be happy and to progress.
— Toni Sorenson
After twenty years of unbelief, doubt had become a habit. Doubting was easy, routine; it was my natural, instinctive reaction. Somewhere along the line I had stopped considering any other options. Doubt was my default. So choosing the blessing, the miracle, over coincidence had to be a conscious choice. I had to dismiss doubt as the crutch that it was, dismiss my gut instinct and embrace the more challenging alternative.
— Michelle DeRusha, Spiritual Misfit: A Memoir of Uneasy Faith
I chose and my world was shaken, so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.
— Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park With George
Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to.
— Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged
Life is made up of a few moments all strung together like pearls. Each moment is a pearl, and it is up to us to pick the ones with the highest luster. If we do not have time to do great things, take a few gentle moments and do small things in a great way.
— Joyce Hilfer
You know, kid, ethics isn't about choosing between right and wrong; it's about choosing between grey and grey. It's about choosing between two equally desirable but mutually exclusive courses of action. Freedom or security? Courage or comfort? Self-examination or blissful happiness? Column A or Column B?
— Will Ferguson, Happiness
Choosing one thing usually doesn't mean killing all of the other options forever. Oftentimes, you can always go back and change your mind if you want. If not, and you realize the decision did not pan out the way you had hoped, you now have a lesson for future decisions.
— Chris Hardwick, The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level
By choice or by chance, we must actively test our limits to know our capabilities.
— Marian Deegan, Relevance: Matter More
The worst choice you can make, is no choice at all.
— Suzie Barnes-Eilhauer
If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.
— Agnostic Zetetic
Some say that our lives are defined by the sum of our choices. But it isn't really our choices that distinguish who we are. It's our commitment to them.
— Emily Thorne
We have within us the power to choose how we respond to a hurtful situation. We cannot control the actions of others, but we can control how we will respond. As we understand our power to choose, we see that we are in control. Our life is not a result of our environment or upbringing, but a result of our choices. We have the ability to determine the kind of life we want to live and the type of person we wish to be.
— Cameron C. Taylor, 8 Attributes of Great Achievers
Happiness is a choice. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions but on inward decisions.
— Cameron C. Taylor, Does Your Bag Have Holes? 24 Truths That Lead to Financial and Spiritual Freedom
Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.
— Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone
Life is really simple. There are no complicated rules we must follow. There are no external forces, which dictate how we must lead our lives. There is no fate that prevents us from being who we want to be.We are the ones who often insist that life is complicated. Life is complex with its multidimensional nature. It is never complicated. All complications come from our fears, which we often choose to trust more than the voice of our hearts.
— Raphael Zernoff
When everything is available, nothing is ever enough.
— Emma Woolf, The Ministry of Thin
I don't want to be told that it's the people with power over us who are guilty, that we're innocent slaves, that we're not guilty because we're not free. I am free! I'm building a Vernichtungslager; I have to answer to the people who'll be gassed here. I can say "No". There's nothing can stop me—as long as I can find the strength to face my destruction.
— Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.
— Cameron C. Taylor, Does Your Bag Have Holes? 24 Truths That Lead to Financial and Spiritual Freedom
When you've only got two choices, and you don't like either of them, make a third choice.
— Andy Lane, Red Leech
I had a dream about you
—  I’ve had multiple dreams about you. If I had to choose between the real you and the dream you then…Goodnight.
We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.
— Wayne Muller, Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives
Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life.
— Kathy Mckeon
You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing.
— Raphael Zernoff
Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word 'undone'. These women could not be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Awakening is a different name for raising one's frequency. It is about becoming more aware of different perspectives, from which you may choose whatever you resonate with.
— Raphael Zernoff, I Am
Find your freedom through questioning everything you hear and see. Be free to choose, from all possible perspectives and opinions, what builds love and harmony.
— Raphael Zernoff
Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.
— Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
The choice is very obvious if you have to choose between the devil and the angel! If the choice is not obvious in your mind, then you have some badnesses inside you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We don't get to choose what truths God reveals to us -- but we do get to choose what we do with the truths -- whom we share it with and how.
— Carol Goodman, The Seduction of Water
Its your decision, Simon Lewis," said Magnus. "Remain in the existence you have, go to college, study music, get married. Live your life. Or---you can have an uncertain life of shadows and dangers. You can have the joy of reading the stories of incredible happenings, or you can be part of the story.""The choice is up to you
— Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Elixir
When anything is possible, how do you choose?
— Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever
When everything becomes tangled, you should make the choice.
— Roman Simonyan
Most people go through life by the line of least resistance in every circumstance where they can make a choice. They do not recognize that following the lines of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked!
— Napoleon Hill, You Can Work Your Own Miracles
Introduction of rational standards to differentiate between acceptable and unacceptable forms of drug related conduct allows us to hold drug users fully accountable for any harm resulting from irresponsible, stupid or ‘anti-social’ drug use in a manner consistent with current alcohol and tobacco policies, and more importantly, in a manner consistent with our commitment to the principles of liberty, freedom of choice and so on.
— Daniel Waterman
Anything can be a curse if it ain't a choice. If it's all you know. If you do it because your father did it. And you do it because it's familiar and safe and you're afraid to do something else. Even if all you want to do is anything else.
— Johnny Shaw, Dove Season
Life is full of choices.Your choice is your true freedom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Nobody introduces us to inspiration…it glows in our thoughts, it lives in our heart,It is all around us in the form of sunshine, in the clouds. It changes our reality - choice lies with us.
— Balroop Singh
Hard choices are precious opportunities to become the distinctive people that we are.
— Emma Albennett
When you streamline your schedule by making deliberate decisions about tasks and activities that are crucially important you and identify your most important priorities, you give yourself permission to make choices that excite and interest you. You also grant yourself permission to exercise your right to say, “No, thank you.
— Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
Perhaps we all have a face behind a face…Good and the bad, happy and sad, sane and insane. We all have an angel and the stranger and we all have the choice!
— Nino Varsimashvili
The choices she's made have left her without choice.
— Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
Do you think people can change?" I ask Rick "Yes." he answers plainly. "There are those who can." That grabs my attention. "So you believe it's possible?""Miss Stella."He gives me his teacher-to-pupil stare. "Its boils down to choice.
— Katie McGarry, Red at Night
This road will be new because you will see a given emotion as a choice rather than a condition of life.
— Wayne W. Dyer, Your Erroneous Zones
I asked for your heart and you gave me a stone.
— Rachel Hore, The Glass Painter's Daughter
("A Free Market in Education: The Answer to Prayer, And Other Issues")No matter where you are on the issue, there is no solution to it within a government school context, only perpetual conflict. The answer involves choice, competition and private alternatives. If you don't like what a business offers, you don't argue endlessly about it; you walk across the street. Why is this principle so complicated for some people?
— Lawrence  W. Reed
Every day, everywhere we are surrounded by positive things, but will you choose to see them?
— Nabil N. Jamal
Of course there’s another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I’m just not going to take it.
— Brian Evenson, Last Days
So you know what mean when I say that I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just pulled to that person like true north, whether it's good for you or bound to break your heart.
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
What’s the point of doing what you’re told if you have no choice in the matter?
— Cassandra Kemper, The Madder Hatter
After years studying informality in Nigeria, Dutch architect and planner Rem Koolhaas reach the same conclusion. In the West, he writes, “there’s a sense of infinite choice, but a very conventional set of options from which to choose.” By contrast, “in Lagos, there is no choice, but there are countless ways to articulate the condition of no choice.
— Dayo Olopade, The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
Neil said to me once that in times of desperation, you have to force yourself to make a decision.It's your choice, he said. Us or them. So choose.
— Shirley Marr, Fury
Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice.""If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up through your own choice.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three
I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.
— David O. McKay
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into complaints.
— Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.
— Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
We may not have the choice to be rich or comfortable, but whatever happens; we do always have the choice to be an educated person.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Even indecision is a decision.
— Toni Sorenson
By choosing our path, we choose our destination.
— Thomas S. Monson
I must admit that when I chose the name, 'vitamine,' I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an amine nature. However, it was necessary for me to choose a name that would sound well and serve as a catchword, since I had already at that time no doubt about the importance and the future popularity of the new field.
— Casimir Funk, Die Vitamine: Ihre Bedeutung Fur Die Physiologie Und Pathologie
It is highly probable that we choose our posture, not our problems.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
gimme thousands of choices of joy and glory. gimme dreaming promises that lift up my intention.I won't take one of them at all cos I've chosen my own and it's you
— neo wasiman
Love isn't an accident. Love is a choice.
— Jireh Edchin Traya
We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.
— Sara Sheridan
We might give God our tithing, our material possessions, even our time and talents, but those are not really ours to begin with. They are gifts on loan. What is ours is the only genuine sacrifice we can lay on the altar—total submission.
— Toni Sorenson
Winning is a choice, but losing is an option.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.
— P.T. Denys, Violence Begets...
It is true that we choose our life, but it’s also true that we can choose at any moment to change our path.
— Jamie Magee, Insight
It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel.
— Ally Condie, Matched
It's a queer business, making oneself blind.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts
If you don't have the right support form the right people you are always going to be the best choice and not the preferred choice.
— Richmond Akhigbe
The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.
— Cormac McCarthy, Sanas Chormaic: Cormac's Glossary
Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love are few, and the ones you detest are many.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.
— Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With
Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
— Matthew Kelly, The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. ‘She is a girl,' she said, ‘and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. ‘Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, ‘but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear.
— George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.
— George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.
— Christiaan Barnard
What is there left to understand? Choice is an illusion. Freedom is conceit. The hands that reach out to guide your every step, your every thought, come not from the gods, for they are no less deluded than we - no, my friends, those hands come to each of us... from each of us.
— Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters
You must make a choice,” the Goddess said.“Is that my only choice – to choose between men?” I asked. “I want what Mother had!”“Your mother chose two men,” she said with light laughter.“No! She chose independence for her country. She chose power and freedom,” I yelled.Almost as if in response, a pulsating energy moved up from the ground into my bare feet. It thrummed up my body and radiated out in a bright light, first from my toes, then from my fingertips, then the top of my head.“I choose power,” I said. “I choose freedom.
— Vicky Alvear Shecter, Cleopatra's Moon
Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, Divided & Conquered
As the voices fall silent, the individuals who make up the amorphous and always changing community must decide for themselves, as they always have. I can’t write a coda because I can’t speak for others. I can only and ever speak for myself.
— G.R. Reader
Like the swimming rats in Richter’s experiment, we can survive for only so long without solid ground beneath our feet; if the choices aren’t real, sooner or later we will go under. It’s important, therefore, that we examine our assumptions about choice and that we openly discuss how, when and why it falls short.
— Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing
A lie by choice will force you to a thousand unavoidable lies.
— M.F. Moonzajer
At its best, choice is a means by which we can resist the people and the systems that seek to exert control over us. But choice itself can become oppressive when we insist that it is equally available to all. It can become an excuse for ignoring inequities that stem from gender or class or ethnic differences, for example, because one can blithely say, “oh, but they had a choice! We all have choices.
— Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing
God gave a choice to Adam and Eve to eat the fruit which caused death and pain to all mankind. How is that different than allowing a choice regarding abortion? A person may make the choice to end one life but god allowed a choice that impacts every man, woman and child that has ever been and ever will be. If we strive to follow the image of god how can we outlaw choices and deny the same rights, freedoms and choices that god allowed? We shouldn't determine the choices of others.
— C. L. Ferguson
When the options are few, we can be happy with what we choose since we are confident that it is the best possible choice for us. When the options are practically infinite, though, we believe that the perfect choice for us must be out there somewhere and that it’s our responsibility to find it. Choosing can become a lose-lose situation: if we make a choice quickly without fully exploring the available options, we’ll regret potentially missing out on something better; if we do exhaustively consider all the options, we’ll expend more effort (which won’t necessarily increase the quality of our final choice), and if we discover other good options, we may regret that we can’t choose them all.
— Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing
The fault is not in our stars," I whispered to the ceiling. "But in ourselves. This was my choice.
— Susan Dennard, Something Strange and Deadly
In this life I choose you.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
Here they were, on the only planetary surface on which you could walk freely, naked to the wind and the sun, and when they had a choice, they sat in boxes and stared at littler boxes, just as if they had no choice-as if they were in a space station-
— Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312
There is a quality about women who choosemen sparingly
— it appears in their walkin their eyesin their laughter and in theirgentle hearts.
Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
— Brian Greene
If our reputation rests on the decisions we make, then Abishag has impeccable taste. If fragrance is worn to make a personal statement, then the unchosen Abishag has publicly proclaimed her allegiance. She has put on the scent of her lord, for her lord. She belongs to him. Every facet of her character proclaims rejection of other, so-called, 'shepherds.' Whether he chooses her, or not, she has chosen him.pg 36
— Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs The Book for Daughters
We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for human rights.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Choice, is what presents us with a multitude of paths, because choice creates a flow of electrons through the brain in a manner that inexorably leads to quantum superposition, and the many-worlds that are the inevitable result.
— Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.»«You have lived well,» the Alien said.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
After all is said and done, you are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.
— Juliet Marillier
I found that when women were able to act in line with their natural inclinations and ambitions -- whether to work or stay at home -- they were generally happy, and generally felt that their children were happy too. Whereas those whose natural inclinations and ambitions had been thwarted -- whether they were working or stay-at-home moms -- were sure that they and their kids would be better off if they changed course, and either went to work or went home. The morality of the situation-- whether they felt it was good or bad for their chidlren-- derived, not from some external sense of the morality of their "choices," but from the amount of happiness generated by any given arrangement.
— Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood identities? What kind of choice is it when you have to choose between becoming a mother and remaining yourself?
— Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
it (love) must be a conscious choice and not an emotional response (Matthew 5:46).
— Michael DiMarco, Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do For Love And How To Avoid Them
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.
— Enrico Fermi, Collected Papers of Enrico Fermi: The United States, 1939-54
Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life
— Michael Bassey Johnson
That's what I like about the modern world: choice. We all choose what we have to live with.
— Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before
Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make
— Louise Penny, Still Life
I believe you can prove everyone wrong, too, Victoria. Your behavior is a choice; it isn't who you are.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers
Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.
— Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight
Ludlow put a hand on his arm. "A friend of mine used to say, 'You cannot change the past, but every moment is an opportunity to change your future.
— F.E. Higgins, The Eyeball Collector
Choose to be the best version of you.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
Every choice we make affects the other. It always has… We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of us has to carry the weight alone—You have never been alone.
— Olivia Fuller, Something Wicked
If you do not control your circumstance, you will be controlled by your circumstance. The choice is yours.
— Tami B Harriott
You have a choice in everything in life, so keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make makes you.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
We are always - always- in choice.
— Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative
There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
There is no utter truth or utter falsehood in this world. There is only mostly. Which part of the mostly you choose to accept, well, that much is up to you.
— Kelly Barnhill, The Mostly True Story of Jack
The worst choice you can make, is no choice at all
— Nicholas Stoller
I’m very fond of the concept of choice as the basis for sexual preference. This point of view is unpopular in an era in which every claim for gay rights is bases on pseudoscientific sulking about how we can’t help being queer; we’re just born that way. Thanks, but I don’t want to receive my civil rights as a charity fuck bequeathed on me by my genetic superiors.
— Patrick Califia-Rice
People can't change. We're pre-programmed robots going through the motions. We're the same at death as we are at birth.
— J. Matthew Nespoli
We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.
— Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended.
— Moffat Machingura, How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye
We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
— David Levithan, Every Day
Raven looks at me. “What about you, Lena?”I can feel Alex’s eyes on me. My mouth is so dry; the sun is so blinding. I look away, toward the hundreds and hundreds of people who have been driven out of their homes, out of their lives, to this place of dust and dirtiness, all because they wanted the power to feel, to think, to choose for themselves. They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all.But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.Coral shifts, and moves her hand to Alex’s arm.“I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself.
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
There's a great difficulty in makingchoices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices, no one choiceseems satisfactory for very long by comparison with the aggregate desirability of all the rest, though compared to any *one* of the others it would not be found inferior. All equally attractive but none finally inviting.
— John Barth, The End of the Road
We can't always have our druthers.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Remember, I might be the wind, but you control the kite.
— Kathy Reichs, Death du Jour
Choice- Everyone has them, so take control!
— Mordakhi
God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.
— C.J. Langenhoven
The way you live each day is a sentence in the story of your life. Every day, you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
And let me tell you my dearest friend,if you think that running away from it is the best solution, then you're wrong.You will never discovered your happiness. Trust me. I know because I've been in the exact situation as you are in now. And yes!There will be heartache and disappointment but you'll never regret the choice you've taken because everything turns out to be beautiful and this, my friend,is how I discovered you as the happiness of my life.
— Songkee R. EEP
Life often is a bucket of water sitting on a farmer’s porch. Our choice is in the drinking.
— Harley King, A Glimpse of Fear
Because we always have a choice, even when it feels like we don't.
— A.C. Gaughen, Scarlet
Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.
— J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.
— Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
It’s so strange how one choice can derail so many lives. It was so huge to me, I expected her answer to change everything, but it didn’t. I guess that’s life, right? You never really know what’s waiting for you. You never really know what’s going to happen or why. You just have to be able to deal with it. Big or small.
— Nyrae Dawn, Dizzy
He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.
— Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
Every choice is limited. That's life.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.
— Patricia Briggs, Cry Wolf
What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.
— Terryl L. Givens, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.
— Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
— John Irving, The Cider House Rules
All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.
— Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds
The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them.
— Marty Rubin
I never needed the Society," she says, "to Match me." (-Lei)
— Ally Condie, Reached
Life happens, whether you're in it or not, but death doesn't give you a choice.
— Anthony Liccione
Each and every day begins with a choice, the first influencing the second, the third and so on . . .
— Evinda Lepins
The best way to choose the wrong door, or never even open the door, is to let fear run the show. When you reflect on any big-ticket decision you have made on the basis of fear and anxiety, you can almost guarantee you made the wrong decision.
— Ramani Durvasula, You Are WHY You Eat: Change Your Food Attitude, Change Your Life
To be or not to be, that is the choice
— Daniel Lee Edstrom
You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choice.
— Steven Denn
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.
— Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse
If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?
— Margaret Landon
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.
— C. Wright Mills
If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.
— David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
I‘m very aware that my personal life, my marriage, is the source of speculation and interest in the department and with the public. I can live with that. I’m also aware that my husband’s businesses, and his style of conducting his businesses, are also the source of speculation and interest. I have no particular problem with that. But I resent very much that my reputation and my husband’s character should be questioned this way. From the media, Commander, it’s to be expected, but not from my superior officer. Not from any member of the department I’ve served to the best of my ability. I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.
— J.D. Robb
Wait, Armand, he heard behind him but kept walking, ignoring the calls. Then he remembered what Emile had meant to him and still did. Did this one bad thing wipe everything else out?That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad.But not today. Gamache stopped.
— Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead
The healthy life: It’s not just about losing the weight
—  it’s about losing the mentality that got you there.
...You know something, don't you?""I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific.""Just answer the question.""True/false or multiple choice?
— Neal Shusterman, Bruiser
We have choice,” she insisted. “This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we’re given...
— Dianna Hardy, The Demon Bride
God never gives you more than you can handle. It's your choice on how you deal with what he gives you. You can either grow from it, or you can lie down and give up.
— Kendra Sedgwick
But you know, even worrying about haircuts couldn't depress me. Because every time I started sinking low, I'd just remember about football. All this time I'd thought I wanted to be a trainer, when it turned out I wanted to be a player instead. I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom this gave me—I can't even describe it. It was my decision. I chose it. I am not a cow.
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen
But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
We don't choose our wildest dreams. They choose us.
— Tama Kieves, Inspired and Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in your life's work
First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.
— Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
You lost your ability to choose the moment you started to use your eyes to see, and your heart to feel. Choice has become nothing but an illusion for you.
— Lionel Suggs
The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to the Laws of Creation
If you choose to walk through the fire, why do you complain it's hot?
— Anthony Liccione
Free will and choice implies that you are able to even re-write your record of memories.
— Lionel Suggs
I chose not to fight it. Eating them...is my revenge.
— J.H. Myn, Blade and Bone
...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
— Winston S. Churchill
As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
— Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
— Confucius, Sayings of Confucius
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
— Hunter S. Thompson
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated
Sounds naive respecting someone who doesn't give a shit about you.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
— Timothy J. Keller
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
— William Hazlitt, Selected Essays, 1778-1830
Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.
— Ray A. Davis
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
— Socrates
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended
—  yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.
— Vimala McClure, The Tao of Motherhood