#choice

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #dignity #empowerment #happiness #husbands

Which do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices? ↗

— Lysa TerKeurst

#faith #inspirational #faith

What do you know of gods and saints?” I ask, filling my voice with scorn. His fingers drift to the silver oak leaf of Saint Camulos on his cloak. “I know that what our saints want is not always made clear to us. Sometimes, it is their wish for us to flail and struggle and come to our own choices, not accept ones that have been made for us. ↗

— Robin LaFevers

#choice #courage #faith #courage

Your life is your own, rise up and live it. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#faith

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