Choice Quotes - Page 15

No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it offsets the corruption as much as possible.

A.J. Darkholme

By not making your own choices, you give up power to change your life.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

If you can't find a good enough reason to do something, then why do it?

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.

Charlotte Eriksson

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

A.J. Darkholme

If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.

Anthony Liccione

September tried to show her sternness. It was becoming a habit. She could show her sternness and think about this another time, when it was quiet and no new red Moon turned somersaults in the sky. But when she reached for her sternness, all September found in her heart was the bar of a trapeze, swinging wild, inviting her to catch it....She leaned up and kissed her Marid and hoped it was the right thing. Her heart caught the bar and swung out, swung wild, over the lights and the gasps below, reaching for a pair of sure blue hands in the air and willing them to find hers.

Catherynne M. Valente

Most people have to get to a point where they don't have a choice before they'll change something.

Alex Marwood

Real choices – the ones that changed you and shaped you – were never made with the head, but on the beat of a heart that saw a future it couldn't live without.

Dianna Hardy

But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437

Joseph Delaney

Every time we choose our past over our present, we kill our future.

TemitOpe Ibrahim

You must choose the life you live at the time you live it.

Claire North

When you stop existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with the wonder and synchronicity.

Steve Maraboli

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

P.C. Cast

There is no feeling that is comparable to that of being truly lost. I don’t mean lost in the woods, or desert, but lost in the way that only can happen internally. Lost to the deepest,blackest pit of your soul, clinging to ghosts of past times, when you thought you knew who andwhat you were. When this happens, you have two choices; you can give in to your darkest inclinations,and accept what you are, or you can fight, knowing that it is a losing battle, that the good halfof your soul is strong, but can never erase the bad part.

H.D. Gordon

It's a choice, it’s a bold move - disassembling the Box - and one that requires assertion, but the rewards are remarkable!!

Heidi Reagan

Sic vis pacem para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war.

A.J. Darkholme

A victim has the potential to transform into a survivor, but if that is forgotten, a true victim is what they become. A survivor must endure strife and persevere against those thoughts that would convince them otherwise. Holding fast to ones will will allow them to know their strength has not evaporated; They will never be without hope.

J.D. Stroube

You are the most influential person in your life. You can embrace your strengths or give away your power. The choice is yours.

Gary Hopkins

Welcome to the apocalypse. Where make-do is a motto and life seems wrong, out-of-place. Where the weak become strong because they have no other choice.

Caroline George

My people sing, we dance, we love. That is our strength. But we also dig. And then we die. Seldom do we get to choose why. That choice is power. That choice has been our only weapon. But it is not enough.

Pierce Brown

A system of justice does not need to pursue retribution. If the purpose of drug sentencing is to prevent harm, all we need to do is decide what to do with people who pose a genuine risk to society or cause tangible harm. There are perfectly rational ways of doing this; in fact, most societies already pursue such policies with respect to alcohol: we leave people free to drink and get inebriated, but set limits on where and when. In general, we prosecute drunk drivers, not inebriated pedestrians.In this sense, the justice system is in many respects a battleground between moral ideas and evidence concerning how to most effectively promote both individual and societal interests, liberty, health, happiness and wellbeing. Severely compromising this system, insofar as it serves to further these ideals, is our vacillation or obsession with moral responsibility, which is, in the broadest sense, an attempt to isolate the subjective element of human choice, an exercise that all too readily deteriorates into blaming and scapegoating without providing effective solutions to the actual problem. The problem with the question of moral responsibility is that it is inherently subjective and involves conjecture about an individuals’ state of mind, awareness and ability to act that can rarely if ever be proved. Thus it involves precisely the same type of conjecture that characterizes superstitious notions of possession and the influence of the devil and provides no effective means of managing conduct: the individual convicted for an offence or crime considered morally wrong is convicted based on a series of hypotheses and probabilities and not necessarily because he or she is actually morally wrong. The fairness and effectiveness of a system of justice based on such hypotheses is highly questionable particularly as a basis for preventing or reducing drug use related harm. For example, with respect to drugs, the system quite obviously fails as a deterrent and the system is not organised to ‘reform’ the offender much less to ensure that he or she has ‘learned a lesson’; moreover, the offender does not get an opportunity to make amends or even have a conversation with the alleged victim. In the case of retributive justice, the justice system is effectively mopping up after the fact. In other words, as far as deterrence is concerned, the entire exercise of justice becomes an exercise based on faith, rather than one based on evidence.

Daniel Waterman

We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.

Agnostic Zetetic

The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. I grapple with this because I’m a parent. And I think anybody who has children, you come to this realization, you know—what’ll it be? Alienated, cynical intellectual? Or slack-jawed, half-wit consumer of the horseshit being handed down from on high? There is not much choice in there, you see. And we all want our children to be well adjusted; unfortunately, there’s nothing to be well adjusted to!

Terence McKenna

Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.

Evita Ochel

Cages everywhere I went. I was no better off in Saxonia, excepting only for the threat of vigorous, royal incest. Perhaps this also means that a princess is only a particularly desirable kind of monstrous creature--a lure that must be kept in a box at all times.

J.M. McDermott

[F]eminism wasn't supposed to make us feel guilty, or prod us into constant competition over who is raising children better, organizing more cooperative marriages, or getting less sleep. It was supposed to make us free -to give us not only choices but the ability to make these choices without constantly feeling that we'd somehow gotten it wrong.

Sheryl Sandberg

[She] discovered what feminism intended to be about, or at least a piece of what it promised to the generations who followed blindly in its wake. The freedom to live one's life apart from any prescribed pathway. The ability to love men and children and jobs but not lose one's self to them. The opportunity to embrace choices rather than just have them.

Debora L. Spar

The feminism of equality, of toughness, of anti-discrimination, has been overwhelmed by one of victimhood and demands for special treatment....At a certain point, when we demand an equal ratio of men to women in certain fields, what we’re criticizing is not “the system,” but the choices that women themselves are making.....let’s keep our eye on the question of equal opportunity and stop obsessing about equal outcomes, lest we find ourselves trying to cure society, not of sexism, but of free choice.

Elizabeth Wasserman

Girls and guys, don't let anyone tell you who and what you should be into.

Miya Yamanouchi

Equality makes way for an increased number of free, considered choices, and an increased number of people with access to them. But choice itself isn't the same as equality...

Andi Zeisler

At the end of the day, feminism is not about what choice you make, it's about having the ability to make a choice.

Jennifer Baumgardner

Feminists have accepted that choice is possible when it comes to a different, difficult subject: abortion. The feminist position (and I agree with it) is that women own their bodies and therefore each woman has the right to choose to get an abortion if she gets pregnant. This is called being "pro-choice". Feminists should be consistent on the subject of choice. If a woman has the right to choose to have an abortion, she should also have the right to choose to have sex for money. It's her body; it's her right.

Chester Brown

Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)

Shannon A. Thompson

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric)

Shannon A. Thompson

I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.

Kia Carrington-Russell

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves--rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children.

Caitlin Moran

Holy dreams.Holy decisions.Holy choices.Holy actions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge is life. The more informed you are, the better you are in making the best decision.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never seek to please anyone. Seek to evolve thyself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In the moment of decision, may you hear the voice of the Creator saying, ‘This is right road, travel on it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A flower has no choice in where it is planted, but does have a choice in the direction it grows.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The easy way out is the choice of the myopic.

E.L. Neve

How do we handle feelings? What significance should we attach to them? If we want to keep our feelings from deceiving and defeating us, we must make some tough choices in our lives. We must trust God to keep our feelings under His control. We must make a choice to rejoice, and we must do it constantly. Feelings go where our thoughts and choices take them. So we can have confidence that God will use our choice and release to us the feelings that we need.

George Foster

Feelings are involuntary reactions, so God does not say, "Feel joy." He says, "Rejoice!" It's a choice.

George Foster

Like other spiritual fruit, joy must be cultivated.

George Foster

Choose joy! Joy is a choice. Joy is a witness. Joy is a therapy. Joy is a habit. If Jesus, who drank so deeply of the world's sorrow, could be filled with so much fun and laughter, then so can I.

George Foster

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

Amit Kalantri

Noelle slid up Rachel's body and turned her face with a gentle hand on her cheek. "Ace has to make his choice," she murmured, stroking Rachel's lips. "He doesn't get to lock you away from pleasure because he's all tangle up. You're made for joy.

Kit Rocha

Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you're willing to choose it.

Todd Stocker

Life is complicated. It's a form of joy to have no other choice.

M.O. Walsh

Joy is a choice, and it’s something we fight for and choose.

Joshua Stannard

We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we’ve lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single.

Anthony Liccione

Nobody wanted to be sexless, but nobody wanted to be nothing but sex.

Margaret Atwood

By all means be submissive in the bedroom (if you are that way inclined), but don't be submissive to life. Being life's bitch is no fun at all. Life may play up in many ways, but it's up to you to take control, take charge and show life who's really calling the shots.

Miya Yamanouchi

Single is a choice, just like Married is.

Mandy Hale

Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it.

Mandy Hale

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