#cho

It is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things ... I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount ... No ... we always have a choice. All of us." (p. 323) ↗

— M.L. Stedman

#choices #forgiveness #happiness #hate #forgiveness

We become our decisions over time. We choose to love, or we can choose to hate. We can choose to forgive, or we can choose to take revenge; to have hope, or we can choose to fall into despair. But, regardless, we become our choices we make over time." p. 318 ↗

— David LeRoy

#decision #hate #love #forgiveness

We live in a society that shuns guilt, hardly knows it. It is drummed into us: "Don't feel guilty." No one wants to pay the price of reconciliation, of atonement, of forgiveness. ↗

— Robert Dykstra

#psychology #forgiveness

Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person can make me denounce my past. It made me who I am today, and the choices I make from this moment on are what will ultimately define me. ↗

— Julie-Anne

#forgiveness #god #past #forgiveness

Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #freedom #love #freedom

1. Bullying is not okay. Period. 2. Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people. 3. If your sincerely-held religious beliefs require you to bully children, then your beliefs are fucked up. ↗

— Jim C. Hines

#bullying #legislation #outrage #schools #freedom

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#good-and-evil #freedom

Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#freedom #leaving #freedom

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#becomes #body #choosing #i #indelible

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#psychology #freedom