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‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.
— Jodi Picoult
There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.
— Jim Butcher, Cold Days
I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.
— John Keats, Letters of John Keats
Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.
— L. Ron Hubbard
The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.
— Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
— Anthony Robbins
...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in one case and in another and so on, that is a real mathematical formula - then, most likely, man will at once cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to. For who would want to choose by rule? Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ-stop or something of that sort; for what is a man without desires, without freewill and without choice, if not a stop in an organ?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
ChoiceI needed it like I needed air.Bit no one could hear me. No one could listen. No words. No sound.No voice.I couldn't even dream myself away.Choices were made.None of them mine.At first I wondered if it was hell.And then I knew it was.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Though our hourglass runs, one day it shall not, but then our eternity hourglass begins with never ending sands, what mantle do you want to set your hourglass of eternal life upon? This in your choice to make, no one but you can make that decision. So think wisely and live honorable, for your actions will choice the destination of your hourglass.
— Tabitha Robin
You got a choice, dude. We've all got choices. Lots of them. Every single second of the day we're making choices. You've just been making bad ones, is all.
— Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation
That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
— Cameron Dokey, Golden:  A Retelling of Rapunzel
Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.
— Brian Solis
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
— Simone Weil
The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.
— James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision
He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? What a waste, what a senseless waste! But what of those things which you actually didn't like, not because you were not supposed to like them, not because to dislike them was considered a mark of refinement and education - but because you actually found them distasteful? The very idea annoyed me. How could you know? It involved a problem of choice. I would have to weigh many things carefully before deciding and there would be some things that would cause quite a bit of trouble, simply because I had never formed a personal attitude toward so much. I had accepted the accepted attitudes and it had made life seem simple ...
— Ralph Ellison
He had his choice, and he liked the worst.
— John Ciardi, The Monster Den: or Look What Happened at My House — and to It
If you choose to crawl, so be it. If you choose to stroll, so be it. If you choose to fly, so be it. WHENEVER YOU MAKE A CONSCIOUS CHOICE, YOU KNOCK! (..Knock, and the door will be opened to you.) ~ UNIVERSE LOVES YOU & SO DO I ❤ #StardustAK ❤
— Abhishek Kumar
I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.
— Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.
— Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
I was now well prepared to be a career criminal. I had the proper training and a natural feel for the business. I had a respect for the old-liners like Angelo and Don Frederico. I had been a witness to both murder and betrayal and had my appetite whetted for acts of revenge.I just didn't have the stomach for any of it.I didn't want my life to be a lonely and sinister on, where even the closest of friends could overnight turn into an enemy who needed to be eliminated. If I went the way Angelo had paved, I would earn millions, but would never be allowed to taste the happiness and enjoyment such wealth often brings. I would rule over a dark world, a place where treachery and deceit would be at my side and never know the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. p368. 
— Lorenzo Carcaterra, Gangster
They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal
—  they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the exercise of choice
If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.
— Michael Neill
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
— B.W. Powe, Towards a Canada of Light
After he wrote The Paradox of Choice, Schwartz got fervent amens from European governments as well as individual readers for insisting that the management of your focus has become one of decision-laden modernity's major challenges. Many behavioral economists and social psychologists also share his concern about what he calls "the consequences of mis-attention.
— Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.
— Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.
— Cynthia Lord
Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.
— Robert M. Price
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy -- is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms. And how do these wiseacres know that man wants a normal, a virtuous choice? What has made them conceive that man must want a rationally advantageous choice? What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. And choice, of course, the devil only knows what choice.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
gay marriage... always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual‘s private choice.
— G.A. Hauser
In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a flat one.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Need is choice come to fruition.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Given the choice, whether to rule a corrupt and failing empire; or to challenge the fates for another throw - a better throw - against one's destiny... what was a king to do? But does one even truly have a choice? One can only match, move by move, the machinations of fate... and thus defy the tyrannous stars.
— Amy Hennig
The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then... what if she had become pregnant? The choice not to abort? The choice not to have a child?
— China Miéville, Perdido Street Station
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
— John B. Heywood
When there are no expectations affecting a choice, it should be taken immediately. Overthinking such a choice will only lead to headaches and missed opportunities. Moreover, when this choice is taken, all alternatives should be eliminated immediately to avoid the pitfalls of groundless regrets.
— Charbel Tadros
In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary displays and tastes that are all "meaningless"; they do not involve anything other than perceived qualities.
— Richard O. Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - And Us
Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose what you must be, and what you must not be, to have little choice in your life. If you were older, you could choose your own way.
— Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her.
— Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
The availability of choice is the downfall of mankind.
— Haresh Sippy
Making an effort or not making an effort is a choice we make by analyzing the outcome before making that choice. Most of the times the analysis is based on previous experiences, what we fail to understand is, that things change, perceptions change & so are the people, the only thing we don’t allow changing is our analysis.
— ShahenshahHK
Miracle is a pure assumption, all it happens by choice of situations.
— Bharath Mamidoju
Death is not a choice, even for the suicide.
— Marty Rubin
How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. If not, choose a different path. That's the gift life offers freely.
— Toni Sorenson
Life is like a rollercoaster. It has ups and downs. But it's your choice to scream or enjoy the ride.
— ???
Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
And [Thaler] noticed that when he had his fellow economists to dinner, they filled up on cashews, which meant they had less appetite for the meal. More to the point, he noticed that they tended to be relieved when he removed the cashew nuts, so they didn't ruin their dinners. "The idea that it could make you better off to reduce your choices—that idea was alien to economics.
— Michael   Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.
— Maggie Nelson, Bluets
Make your choice, make your decision... right now!
— Deyth Banger
Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and so prevent a healthy intermingling of children from decidedly different backgrounds.
— Milton Friedman
I glanced at my mate- the male who had always presented me with a choice not as a gift, but as my own gods-given right.
— Sarah J. Maas
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Rumi Collection
The battle between your current state and your desired state cannot be won without a powerful weapon called CHOICE. Your choice determines you.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Anyone can be anything, irrespective of their stars;Anyone can be anything, irrespective of their sex (or orientation, if you may);Anyone can be anything, irrespective of their age;Anyone can be anything, irrespective of their size;Anyone can be anything, irrespective of their religion (or choice of nonconformity);Anyone can be anything, irrespective of their colour (or absence thereof);Anyone can be anything, irrespective of any previous defining moments;Anyone can be anything, irrespective of anything;Even if, just, for a while.It all comes from a place of choice, will, and determination.And if you, probably, wonder if I blunder when I juggle such trivial and contrasting ideologies,That’s simply because I can be just about anything.CHECK: Anyone can be anything, but not everything is expedient for everyone.
— Ufuoma Apoki
Your choice is a mighty weapon
—  be wise about it.
If we could change just one thing in time, what would we change?WARS, so that we could learn by our mistakes?FAMINE, so that we could feed the world's populace?DISEASE, so that we would never have any sick?POLLUTION, so that we would live in a pristine environment?GREED, so that we all learn that life isn't all about money?OLD AGE, so that we could all live forever?LOVE, so that we could all live in peace and harmony?BEING ALONE, so that we would never-ever be alone throughout life?MAN'S APATHY, so that he would truly understand what it's all about?The choice is hard, because no matter where we start, we will always leave out someone and something.
— Anthony T. Hincks
You always have a choice. Choose to be splendid.
— Phoebe Darqueling
That too ended in defeat with an injury. We have the video. It was painful to watch you struggle; even more painful for you to participate! I knew the Dan Gable dream was over when Nicola proved more into it than you were. But looking back on that time, it was evident that you had a mind of your own. If you didn't want to do something, no one could make you.
— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress
Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.
— Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off a short dock, you can't say no to some things. You can't refuse to pick up your option because there is no option.
— Stephen King, It
Individual free choices” can only be the expression of an “individual free will”.The notion of an “individual free will” generating “individual free choices” creates a much needed consequence: personal accountability.Personal accountability is vital for a primitive, immature human organization based on reprehension or praise.The permanent interaction of a unique inherited Nature (and maybe a unique “soul”) with a unique nurture (environment), will always determine all our “individual free choices”, from cradle to grave. It is impossible for the individual to be sentient before birth and choose these two or three unique factors.The logic of holding someone personally accountable for a “non-chosen” choice eludes me.The notion of individual free will can at best be a “gut felt” illusion, but can never have logical relevance.What sort of human (and divine!) organization can be based on the consequence of a “gut felt” illusion?-Our current one; primitive, illogical, unstable and permanently conflictual.Be it for all individual choices or all differences, the definitive ban of the illusionary notion of personal accountability is the missing step that will lead to human maturity.How’s your “gut” now?
— Haroutioun Bochnakian
Being poet is my choiceless choice.
— TRIPURARI
Being poet is my choicesless choice.
— TRIPURARI
Whatever you focus on overwhelms you. Whether that be past or present, friend or foe, love or hate, problem or GOD. Let GOD be your choice of overwhelm.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
I'm a poet and It's my choiceless choice.
— TRIPURARI
Even if doors are open to the fool, he/she will still be foolish in accessing them.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Divine open doors are not for the arrogant, adulterers and wasters, they are only meant for the humble that will be wise with the opportunity and blessing that comes from them.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
What the proponents of prostitution conveniently ignore is that lack of opportunity is lack of choice.
— Rachel Moran, Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution
The outcome of one’s life is determined by choice to obey kingdom laws
— Sunday Adelaja
To Love The Kingdom Life Is A Choice
— Sunday Adelaja
They could do anything. That, however, was part of what made it difficult to bring [it] to a close. Infinite possibility was going to collapse, in the act of choosing, to the single world line of history. The future becoming the past: there was something disappointing in this passage through the loom, this so-sudden diminution from infinity to one, the collapse from potentiality to reality which was the action of time itself. The potential was so delicious— the way they could have, potentially, all the best parts of all...time, combined magically into some superb, as-yet-unseen synthesis— or throw all that aside, and finally strike a new path to the heart of just government. . . .To go from that to the mundane problematic...was an inevitable letdown, and instinctively people put it off.
— Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars
For every choice there is a tragedy
— Sunday Adelaja
How are you going to choose to show up for life today?
— Lisa Cypers Kamen
Love is always by definition a choice
— Sunday Adelaja
Until we make the unconscious conscious, we will be dictated by it and call it fate.
— Jerry Colonna
Free will is absolute when the choice is right
— Sunday Adelaja
You just think that your future or you intend to devote yourself to the humanity. The choice is in your hands
—  living within you or enjoy the universe.
Perhaps the old man had chosen to look up through—or at least around—his problems while still smiling, knowing that a detour didn’t have to alter the destination, it merely changed the path.
— Kathy Harris, The Road to Mercy
Why give him a choice at all? You said yourself, we need everyone we can get. If this Nix guy is half of what you are, we can’t afford to let him go.”The answer is so simple, and it cuts me to bone.“Because no one ever gave me a choice.
— Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword
It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all.
— Bernard Cornwell, The Flame Bearer
You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine that you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.
— Lynn Flewelling
Choice means more than one option doesnt mean its completely open ended so it's controlled choice not a choice of anything they like, and the problem is, what if you chose not to decide? Then you still have made a choice already. So you must differentiate here between a literal choice and a rational choice, you can say how is that ever a rational choice? If you have to make a rational choice between, for example killing two innocent people, that is impossible. Did you see, so you have to make a literal choice though always.
— Marouane LAASSAFAR
Nothing is as good as coming into the new year with zeal, hope and positive mind.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
She handed back the cigar and dug the silver watch out of her vest pocket. It was warm and smooth, and she didn't know why she liked it so much, but she did. Maybe because it was a choice. Taking it had been a choice. Keeping it had been one, too. And maybe the choice started as a random one, but there was something to it.
— V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic
Today, I encourage you to consider your life, your values, and your relationships and consider who you are by the test of what you do. I invite you to re-affirm the values you hold dear and decide today to stand up for what you believe is right and good in the world.
— Genevieve Gerard
If you want to routinely break the law and get away with it, then a police officer would be a great career choice for you.
— Steven Magee
When the tragedy begins and the boat begins to sink I will do anything in my power to help save my mates if they reuse my help I have no choice but to jump ship to help myself
— Ms. Bonnie Zackson Koury
Really? We always have a choice, do we? What about the choices that other people make that end up completely changing your life, not theirs? Where is our choice there, then?
— Chris Carter, One by One
The nature of love requires a recipient one who will respond by choice to the love given
— Sunday Adelaja
When I saw you in the hall with Darian,” he says at last, “I felt more angry than I’ve felt in a long time. I was angry and . . . and afraid, that you wanted to be there, that you wanted him touching you. In that one look, I felt more than I’ve ever felt with Caspida. Zahra, I think you’re right—love isn’t a choice. If I could choose to love Caspida, maybe this would all be going differently, but I don’t think that’s possible. Not anymore.”All the smoke inside me sinks as I stare at him. “What are you saying?”He turns and meets my gaze squarely. As much I want to, I find it impossible to look away. The intensity of his copper gaze holds me entranced.“I think you know,” he says softly. “Or am I the only one who feels it?
— Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish
Everything is a choice and we can always choose to come from a place of love.
— Akiroq Brost
To be ordinary is a choice, for everyone has it in them to become extraordinary.
— Lauren Lola, An Absolute Mind
It is a choice, and therefore within the province of economics.
— Jason Potts, The New Evolutionary Microeconomics: Complexity, Competence and Adaptive Behaviour
... The individual is still obliged to confer the legitimacy of mutually antagonistic values, for even though the array of ultimate values may contract with the rationalization of the world, one is never relieved from the existential burden of choice ('taking a stand').
— Nicholas Gane, Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalization Versus Re-enchantment
The hardest choices are made not once, but every turn.
— Robert G. Vane, The Joined Realm
Can't make a life and death decision when you are fighting off what I call choice-vertigo
— Kaleb Kilton
Worries don't motivate us, they reduce our energy and opportunity to shine.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Stupidity is not a disease, it's a choice.
— Kambiz Shabankare
Do you love me?” Diana asked.Caine’s eyes widened. She could actually see him twitch. Like a startled animal. Like a rabbit who had just heard a fox.“It’s a yes or no question,” Diana said acidly. “But I’ll accept a nod or a shake of the head or an incoherent grunt.”“I . . . I don’t know what you mean by that,” Caine said lamely.“When I jumped off the cliff, you saved me even though it meant letting Sanjit and the others escape.”“You didn’t give me much choice,” Caine said peevishly. “You had a choice. You wanted to destroy them.”“Okay.”“Why did you make that choice?”Caine swallowed and seemed to find his palms sweaty since he rubbed them on his sides.Diana walked to the door. She unlocked it and held it open. “Go away,” she said. “Come back when you figure out your answer.
— Michael  Grant, Plague
A new you can still emerge from the old you.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
We always have a choice. Only you can decide what you become.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
Obstacles are real, but we must determine to succeed in life no matter how big and many they are.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
The wise will make holiness and purity their priority.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
A man without life purpose is not in any way different from a wondering goat.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
To be or to do? Which way will you go?
— John      Boyd
The choice, as Eddie saw it, was as simple as it was brutal: get moving and keep moving or stand in one place long enough to start thinking about what all of this meant and simply die of fright.
— Stephen King, It
Christians believe their God gave us all free will - strange that for over 2000 years, they have tried to take that choice away.
— Christina Engela, All That Remains
A man or woman becomes happy by choosing happiness every day.
— Marty Rubin
It might be easy to make a decision, but dealing with the hardships it brings is anything but simple.
— Christopher Mart, In the Shreds of Reality: Nameless
The most ironic thing in the world is having no say when your name is determined for the first time (which is also for the last time for most), because newborns are not necessarily known for speaking their minds.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Our choices decide our direction and carve a path for our personal lives and our careers.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, Balancing Work, Relationships & Life in Three Simple Steps
Nothing against the music, it's awesome... but going deeper and deeper in Super Genes... it's kind of dry... isn't it???So I need something bloody!- Crime is a great choice!
— Deyth Banger
I believe that the choice not to have a choice is a choice in itself
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance.
— Terryl L. Givens, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
Not that it matters an awful amount in the grand play of things. And it is play. All of it. It's not real. You have to live your life like you're pretending. An actor living a character's life. Otherwise you won't take risks. You won't live.
— Laura Dockrill, Lorali
It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime
Every temptation comes with a choice.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
You still don’t get it, Clark, do you?’ I couldhear the smile in his voice. ‘It’s not your choice.
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
I do not believe any power can possess the mind of a man or woman... I believe in God-given free will, you see. I think nothing is forced on us, except by other people like ourselves. I think our choices are our own.
— Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree
I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go
—  but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.
People which can't choose, should die... So far I don't see where can they go if they are lock in maze?They will search exit with hours!
— Deyth Banger
It didn't came out from nowhere... it was just your choice. So the difference between this and this is your choice!
— Deyth Banger
Happiness is a choice. Don’t let the outside world choose it for you.
— Frederick Espiritu, The Path to Awesomeness: Becoming Super, Being Human
In that case, which would be the lesser of two evils—terror cabin with a psycho or beach estate with a weirdo?
— K.  Webster, This is War, Baby
She cannot escape marriage; it is her sacred Hindu duty, just as giving her away in marriage was her father’s sacred Hindu duty. Like Indian Independence, marriage is her ultimate ‘Tryst with Destiny,’ and it is not in her hand to escape her preordained and compulsory fate. A marriageable daughter is the lowest common denominator in the giant scheme of things.
— Chandana Roy, A Good Girl
As a woman I am so curious about prostitutes because of the idea that they know men better than you. Also, it's such a strange way to live. But at the same time there are prostitutes who just want to be prostitutes, and this is this woman, nobody pushed her to do it. She's a prostitute because she wants to be a prostitute. It's her philosophy of life.
— Monica Bellucci
Happiness is no luck, its decision a choice.
— Abdul Mueed
You take up the spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise.
— The Mother, Words of the Mother - II
the troubles i faced that time now make me realize i really made the best choice..
— shivangi lavaniya
Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!
— Deyth Banger
You have a choice in life.So, Choose the win! (It's all in your choice.)
— NOT A BOOK
Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we haven't made a choice.
— Deyth Banger
HAPPINESS is a choice. We all seem to be chasing it. It starts with us! True happiness is a gift that we give to ourselves, but it is also a gift that we pass to others. True happiness radiates from us and affects those around us…so the gift just keeps on giving! Every moment of the day there's a chance to create it. How? By the little and simplest ways. Doing things that we love, for our self and for others - nurtures and fulfills our soul. There will always be times of sadness in our life, we can't escape that, however, being optimistic with our thoughts at times like these we will bounce back from adversity. Most of all, be generous with your time, your compassion and your heart.
— Angie karan
I knew I had a choice. Either let you die and have the world blanketed with evil, or save you and make one dark moment for my best friend while the world continues to grow with light.
— K. Weikel, The One-Hundred: Tamir
You get to choose your decision, but you don't get to choose the consequences.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Invest in people, invest in profits
Some jokes are stupid and useless, if you can't get it. It's to stupid to go in it, but whatever!- Make your choice!
— Deyth Banger
Know how to choose. Most things in life depend on it. You need good taste and an upright judgement
—  intelligence and application are not enough. There is no perfection without discernment and selection.
He's your enemy, Donald!''He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He may dearly want to be my enemy, he may beg on bended knee for open hostility of the most violent kind, but it takes two to tangle. I choose my own enemies.
— Stephen Fry, The Liar
He was one of a long line of mimsy and embittered middle-class sensitives who disguised their feeble and decadent lust as something spiritual and Socratic. And why not? If it meant he had to end his days on some Mediterranean island writing lyric prose for Faber and Faber and literary criticism for the New Statesman, running through successions of houseboys and 'secretaries', getting sloshed on Fernet Branca and having to pay off the Chief of Police every six months, then so be it. Better than driving to the office in the rain.
— Stephen Fry, The Liar
Without choice, there can be no service, love, or value to your actions. Remember that.
— D.R. Ranshaw, Gryphon's Heir
Never judge anyone by the choices they've made, because you never know they might have selected the best option out of two bad choices.
— Asma Naqi
For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal.
— Pamela Morris
Utilising the Power of Your Heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
To start utilising of the Power of The Heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
But free will is what it means to be human, and no one can determine the path you take through this universe. Choice is our greatest right, our greatest gift-and our greatest responsibility.
— Amie Kaufman, Their Fractured Light
No one controls who we turn into but us.
— Amy Engel, The Revolution of Ivy
In kindergarten we all stand before a choice - Do we accept the accepted to be accepted or do we stay logical and keep thinking?
— L.H.
What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?
— Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great
Change isn’t a choice
—  it’s already happening. You are atoms and molecules in motion… you can’t avoid change
I believe that the choice not to have a choice is a choice in itself.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
Have to wait my turn.Have to follow the rules.Have to smile like I agree.Have toHave toHave toHave toChoose him.
— Holly Bodger, 5 to 1
In order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it, at any rate, should be settled for us without our permission. If we wish life to be a system, this may be a nuiseance; but if we wish it to be a drama, it is an essential. It may often happen, no doubt, that a drama may be written by somebody else which we like very little. But we should like it still less if the author came before the curtain every hour or so, and forced on us the whole trouble of inventing the next act. A man has control over many things in his life; he has control over enough things to be the hero of a novel. But if he had control over everything, there would be so much hero that there would be no novel.
— G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
If you reject feedback, you also reject the choice of acting in a way that may bring you abundant success.
— John Mattone
She always said she’d already lost one child to gangs and she was not losing another. We were surrounded by gangs and kids getting in trouble blaming it on the area they lived in, but Memo and I are living proof of what my mom always said to us. You are who you choose to be. You’re only a victim of your environment if you allow yourself to be.
— Elizabeth Reyes, Felix
I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.
— Heinz von Foerster
You’ll never have control over other people's decisions, or what cards life deals you. Your power lies in the choosing of your response. That is the one thing you can control.
— John Mark Green
When you cannot do what you have always done, then you only do what matters most.
— Robert D. Hales
Don't apologize.""I wasn't-""Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It's a choice, Olivia.
— Kelley Armstrong, Deceptions
Blindness is a choice born of fear, nursed by complacency and groomed by comfort. And what I often don’t see in my blindness is that 'choice' evidences the existence of other options.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
God waits for our permission and doesn’t invade our privacy as we do with others.Everybody has free choice.
— Mabel Katz, The Easiest Way to Understanding Ho'oponopono
As if one tiny choice by someone unimportant could make that much difference! History had to be a bit tougher than that. It all sprang back eventually, didn't it? He was sure he'd read something about that, somewhere. If it wasn't like that, no one would ever dare do anything.
— Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Are you fixing to stay in this country, then, Walter? After you've dug yourself a patch, and made yourself a pile?''I expect my luck will decide that question for me.''Would you call it lucky to stay, or lucky to go?''I'd call it lucky to choose,' said Moody—surprising himself, for that was not the answer he would have given, three months prior.
— Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
The reality is that its in our best interest to make a choice out of the lots or two. Good or bad, but still a decision must be made in order to move on. Its a waste of time to be between two opinions.Good thing is you can always repent or change your mind if you find out you made the wrong choice but if you linger ....oh dear
— Mary Tornyenyor
No one chooses his parent or childhood, but you can choose your own direction. Everyone has problems and obstacles to overcome.
— Anonymous
I'd made my choice, though, and I couldn't take it back.
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most....women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings?
— Christina Hoff Sommers
Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards.
— Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality.
— Sunday Adelaja
If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afraid because choice means freedom and no choice means slavery!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice.
— Sunday Adelaja
Agony is not something that happens to you.To agonize is a choice.
— Alan Cohen
Never forget that it is by choice that the ordinary person decides to live a life that is extraordinary.
— Cheryl Koevoet, The Carnelian Legacy
Freedom is a choice, and we have to defend our choices.
— Vahid Asghari, CIA Boy ISS Girl
When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality
— Sunday Adelaja
They say, timing is everything. But then they say, there is never a perfect time for anything.
— Anthony Liccione
The way you choose to think and speak about yourself (to yourself and others), IS A CHOICE! You may have spent your whole life talking about yourself in a negative way, but that doesn't mean you have to continue that path.
— Miya Yamanouchi
Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.
— Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality
Don't apologize. You don't have to explain yourself. I choose you. I want you.
— Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine
I don't want Sydney ever to feel like my second choice, when I know in my heart that she's the right choice. The only choice.
— Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
A good shepherd always gives people freedom to choose
—  he doesn’t lay down conditions or use any kind of pretext to restrict people. This shepherd resembles Jesus and people will not even want to leave him.
Bravery's a choice. It's not something you're born with or without. It's something that grows inside you each time you choose to stand up and fight for the right thing. Each time you choose to speak out instead of staying silent. Each time you take on a force greater than yourself for the sake of others.
— Melissa Pearl, Beyond
Every choice you make is have an end result and you are the only one who responsible for whatever the result is.
— Sivaprakash Sidhu Sivaprakash G Sivaprakash Gopal, sivaprakash sidhu, sivaprakash
Let us make a choice and a promise to be kind, courteous, loving, and forgiving.
— Debasish Mridha
It is up to the individual to 'choose' their repertoire of the self. If they do not have access to the range of narratives and discourses for the production of the ethical self they may be held responsible for choosing badly, an irresponsible production of themselves
— Bev Skeggs
Every choice has its consequences. Some more than others
— Stephenie Meyer
I wouldn’t have gone if he’d made me. But it was different, deciding myself. It made staying too easy. It took the...the rebelliousness out of it.'Peter nodded. 'It’s easy to take the opposite path from the one you’re directed to,' he said. 'It’s much harder to find the right path alone.
— Jack Iams, The French Touch
The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.
— Gillian Cross, The Demon Headmaster
The right to choose does not mean the choice is right.
— Ron Brackin
And my grandmother had bought them in preference to other books, just as she would have preferred to take a house that had a gothic dovecot, or some other such piece of antiquity as would have a pleasant effect on the mind, filling it with a nostalgic longing for impossible journeys through the realms of time.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
I thought that for a long while, but you chose me, and then you chose him, and choosing is hard - one choice is never the end of the story.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:To han me foul and old til that I deye,And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf,And nevere yow displese in al my lyf,Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair,And take youre aventure of the repairThat shal be to youre hous by cause of me,Or in som oother place, may wel be.Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath
I've learned that the only things we are in control of are the choices we make at any one given moment.
— Patricia Vanasse, Against All Odds
For happiness, love is your only choice.
— Debasish Mridha
Pay close attention. Listen carefully. Let's look at what happens when fear is in charge. With fear in charge, you can never fully relax, let your guard down, be your true self. You can't open up because you are afraid of how people will respond if they were to meet the real you. When fear is in charge, you simply cannot take that chance. Fear will not allow honesty, fear despises spontaneity, and fear refuses to believe in you. Fear may mean well, but it ruins everything by overprotecting you, insisting that you stay hidden and keep a low profile, that your time is coming....sometime later.Fear is bold, but insists that you be timid. Take a chance and there will be hell to pay: fear will call on its dear friend, shame, to meet you on the other side of your risk taking, to tell you what you should not have done. Fear will trip you, tackle you, smother you, do whatever it takes to cause you to hesitate, to stop you. In this way fear is fearless.
— Thom Rutledge, Embracing Fear: How to Turn What Scares Us into Our Greatest Gift
Maybe there was relief to be found in the prospect of having no choice.
— Stefan Merrill Block, The Story of Forgetting
My life. My choice. Live life only once. So to hell with the world
— Nirmala Pandey
Unless the consequence is ‘death by firing squad’ in my opinion, you do have a choice, and when you choose to do something as opposed to have to do it, you feel so much more motivated and inspired to do it.
— Malti Bhojwani, The Mind Spa Ignite Your Inner Life Coach
This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
And that’s the truth I needed to swallow: people don’t step out and love for you
—  that’s on you. You have to be the one to get down deep enough and whisper the words people can’t always say for you - whether you believe in them full or not - “I choose you. I choose you.
Love shouldn't be dictated
— Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness. Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings. They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that’s what you’re doing.
— David Foster Wallace
Mistakes are a combination of your choices and has nothing to do with your capacity.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
You want to set me free? Do it. You want to turn me in? You can do that too. You're the only one with the choice. And that bullet in your back doesn't mean you've got any less choice than you ever did. Live free of fear if you want to. We all carry something inside us that could kill us
—  yours just has a name. You want to change your life? Change it. You have no less of a right to be happy than the rest of us.
It is always better to try and fail than not to try.
— Alastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice
Cherish the others in your life. Cherish your freedom to be yourself. Cherish your freedom to choose who you want to be, what you want to do next.
— Jay Woodman
The most important thing you can ever know is that no matter what your purpose is, that's not your only choice.
— Dan Wells, Ruins
Each one a little bit different but following some blueprint somewhere. As if each of us might have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.
— David Vann, Aquarium
Happiness is a choice not a result of something you do.
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
But whatever happens, I've been happy. I've been loved. I've amazed crowds and drunk in their applause. Not because of luck or favor or magic. Because of will. My will. I've been willing to do whatever it takes. That's the closest thing I have to a secret. And now it's yours."It's a lot to think about, and he can't quite digest it. But there's a spark there. Maybe she's right about him. Maybe it is up to him, how much he lets the bullet, and the fear, take over his life. Maybe. Not a curse, but a choice. His agency and no one else's.
— Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie
The core of my being is the trigger for the choices I make. With each choice, my personality is enhanced or degraded.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi