#choice

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#choices #choices-and-consequences #conclusions #consequences #decisions

Whether we're on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago. ↗

— Lysa TerKeurst

#inspirational #food

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

— John Scalzi

#love #separation #life

He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel. ↗

— Ally Condie

#freedom #pain #freedom

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#code-name-verity #freedom #freedom-of-choice #freedom

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say. ↗

— John Irving

#freedom-of-choice #mysogyny #womens-rights #freedom

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#freedom #freedom

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#choice #consequences #freedom #redemption #responsibility

Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#choice #dance #identity #individuality #life

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it. ↗

— Don Young

#choice #forgive #get #god #good