Quotes about choosing

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“My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind”

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”

“I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.”

“Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.”

“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”

“Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.”

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”

“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”

“I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?”

“The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.”

“We name us and then we are lost, tamed
I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness”

“Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.”

“You can choose to be free, but it's last decision you'll ever make”

“There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.”

“Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.”

“Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."
As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.”

“They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.”

“They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word. These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.”

“We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. We can’t escape who we are.”

“It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.”

“Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”

“Looks like I’m going to ruin your day, Big Boy. I choose to live my crappy life a little longer. (Susan)”

“Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.”

“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.”

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”

“You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.”

“I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.”

“Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith…. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.”

“Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.”

“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”

“Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.”

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”

“Why is she so stubborn? And disobedient?” Cameron barked a laugh. “Because Mackenzies always choose headstrong women. You didn’t really expect her to obey you, did you? No matter what the marriage vows say?”

“I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.”

“I choose you, Max. -Fang”

“If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?”

“The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.”

“No-one chooses me. I do not give anyone that right. I am Karsa Orlong of the Teblor. All choices belong to me.”

“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”

“Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.”

“"Choosers will be beggars if the begging’s not their choosing," said the Dog.”

“But now, I was beginning to wonder if you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough- more than enough, even- just to be there.
~Ruby, pg 399”

“So I would choose to be with you,
That's if the choice were mine to make,
But you can make decisions too,
And you can have this heart to break”

“If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.”

“A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.”

“Question: When you’re one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It’s how you choose to answer that question that defines you.”

“If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.”

“Art’s something you choose to make … it’s a bringing together of … of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.”

“Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.”

“Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.”

“Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be.”

“We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”

“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”

“You're always free to change your mind
and choose a different future, or a different past.”

“Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.”

“What is the past but what we choose to remember?”

“Between safety and adventure I choose adventure.”

“How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.”

“I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.”

“History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.”

“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.”

“All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.”

“And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.”

“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.”

“Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.”

“We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.”

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go…”

“I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.”

“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”

“Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.”

“If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?”

“If you insist on trying to get yourself killed, I insist on being the one who chooses what you wear while you recover”

“Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog
"What does that mean?"
"I have no idea," said the Dog”

“An individual chooses and makes himself.”

“And after a while… I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that… well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed.”

“Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year.”

“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.”

“No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.”

“The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I
suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven help the one you choose.”

“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.”

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”

“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”

“Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.”

“I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where you don't want me to.”

“When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.”

“In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.”

“Keller couldn't form any words for a moment. Then she said, "Galen? When you choose a form, choose something gentle."

I thought you thought everybody had to be a fighter." He said.

Some people shouldnt have to be.”

“You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.”

“A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing”

“Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.”

“If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.”

“How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.”

“What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?”

“I see time away hasn’t made you any more charming. (Fang)
Oh, I can be charming. I just choose not to. People start to think you like them, then when you stab them in the back, they take it so personally. Really pisses me off. (Thorn)”

“Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.”

“We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.”

“You can choose to die. You can choose to run… but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change… you're going to have to live.”