#choice

I’ll let you see the door is open, so you know I’m open to the idea that you can leave anytime you want. So long as you are able to pick the lock on your handcuffs while you are blindfolded.
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— Jarod Kintz

#captive #choice #decision #door #freedom

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#action #active #allow #choice #choices

But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added. And all anyone can do . . . is choose. ↗

— Kelseyleigh Reber

#destiny-chance #life-lessons #paths #change

I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this." He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. "We have a right to our lives!" The kids go wild. "We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies!" The cheers reach fever pitch. "We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#pro-choice #pro-life #unwind-connor #change

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but I chose neither one. Instead, I set sail in my little boat to watch a sunset from a different view that couldn't be seen from shore. Then I climbed the tallest mountain peak to watch the amber sun through the clouds. Finally, I traveled to the darkest part of the valley to see the last glimmering rays of light through the misty fog. It was every perspective I experienced on my journey that left the leaves trodden black. And that has made all the difference. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#change #changing #choices #inspirational #life

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world. ↗

— Damon Galgut

#choice #looking-back #change

The director is a Canadian, Jeff Stephenson, and any time I get a script that has any Canadian component, I'm always immediately much more interested. ↗

— Kathleen Robertson

#bad #choice #doing #everyone #i

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#embracing-life #energy #flow #happiness #inspirational-quotes

Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change. ↗

— Sarah Dunn

#change

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

— Mandy Hale

#holding-out-for-the-best #life #not-settling #positive-thinking #settling