Quotes about choosing

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“Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.”

“Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.”

“I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.”

“YOU don’t choose your life; it chooses you. There’s no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on.”

“When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.”

“For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”

“The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.”

“Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon”

“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”

“All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.”

“The eye—it cannot choose but see;
we cannot bid the ear be still;
our bodies feel, where'er they be,
against or with our will.”

“I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.”

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”

“How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.”

“Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.”

“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”

“Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.”

“The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.”

“And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?”

“Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways.”

“Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.”

“If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.”

“The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.”

“But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win”

“If it was a sin for you to choose me… then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.”

“Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent."
"Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But… she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.”

“It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.”

“It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?”

“What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.”

“A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.”

“If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think of themselves.”

“Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”

“What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.”

“I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.”

“The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.”

“Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.”

“Only the weak blame their past for the faults they find in their present; the strong acknowledge the effects of their past and then move on from it. We are all free to choose whether we will be weak or strong.”

“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.”

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

“Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with”

“You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.”

“Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide.
Welcome to Canada, idiot.”

“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.”

“Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.”

“We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time
and place we choose. Not them.”

Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.”

“The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do?”

“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”

“Don't choose the better guy, choose the guy that's gonna make you the better girl”

“When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”

“It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.”

“It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword."
--- Ingtar Shinowa ---”

“No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”

“If I cling to circumstances I could feel
not responsible. Only she who says
she did not choose, is the loser in the end.”

“Survivors can't always choose their methods.”

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose”

“It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”

“The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”

“A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.”

“Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.”

“It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.”

“Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.”

“We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.”

“You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.”

“There is how we
were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing
which doors to open, and which to close.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“In the infinity of life where I am,
All is perfect, whole and complete,
I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself
As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete.”

“The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.”

“Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”

“Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!”

“Dear Jack,

I love you, too.

And I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage— just choose someone you can't live without.

For me, that would be you.

So if you insist on being traditional…

Yes.

—Ella”

“You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.”

“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”

“Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.”

“A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.”

“Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”

“Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”

“There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.”

“Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”

“It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it’s presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.”

“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”

“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.”

“Don’t be flattered that he misses you. He should miss you. You are deeply missable. However, he’s still the same person who just broke up with you. Remember, the only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.”

“‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.”

“Because the world isn’t divided into the special and the ordinary. 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”

“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.”

“He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.”

“The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”

“Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.”

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”

“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.”

“Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.”

“Because sometimes in life Ken doesn't always choose Barbie.”

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”

“The only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.”

“Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.”

“Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?”

“She's a librarian, Sim said. They're not teachers; don't give you half as much hassle. If there's a fire in the school and I've got to choose who I'm gonna save - a teacher or a librarian - the teacher's gonna burn every time.
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