#choice

You won't understand this now, Saira. Later, perhaps. When you are older. When you learn that life is not only about the choices you make. That some of them will be made for you. ↗

— Nafisa Haji

#destiny #fate #life #life

If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone. ↗

— Holly Black

#dark #life #life

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by. ↗

— Rumer Godden

#doll #life #life

Life is full of alternatives but no choice. ↗

— Patrick White

#fate #life #life

Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted. I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work. Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough? ↗

— Carol Rifka Brunt

#dying #philosophy-of-life #life

Mercy is stronger than your sword. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#life #mercy #realize #strength #sword

Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes? ↗

— Samuel Park

#life #youth #life

When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel. ↗

— Eloise Ristad

#eloise-ristad #failure #life #success #life

And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do... ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#journey #knowledge #life #life

We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough. ↗

— David Levithan

#contentment #happiness #life #life