#choice

Meg,” he whispered. “It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That’s why there’s evil in this world, because there’s free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#christian #evil #faith #free-will #glass-girl

It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important. ↗

— Honor Raconteur

#faith #freedom #gods-will #honor #man

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. ↗

— Terryl L. Givens

#faith #spirituality #faith

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#human-rights #freedom

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#fairness #feminism #freedom-of-choice #inspirational #truth

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#freedom #freedom-of-choice #hebrew #language #timshel

His ambition was not to become wealthy or to be well known, an image which society for some reason dictates each individual should prescribe to, instead his only ambition was to be at peace with himself, if he could achieve that than anything else he might need would follow. From now on he would question all things in life, but especially the rules and regulations of all authority institutions; he would take nothing on face value and only would accept what he personally knew to undeniably be true. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#choices #freedom-of-expression #inner-peace #questioning-authority #freedom

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having. ↗

— Alasdair Gray

#feminism #freedom #freedom

Orang-orang tidak bisa membelikan aku apapun yang aku mau, karena yang aku mau cuma kebebasan. ↗

— Ayu Welirang

#freedom #freedom-of-choice #kebebasan #freedom

Chloe didn't have all the answers, either. I knew that now. But she had known something all along that I hadn't: that being ashamed of what you want or how you feel is pointless, and letting anyone else make you feel ashamed is a waste. We all wanted different things, and that was okay. Chloe wanted sex without commitment. Mary wanted to wait until she was ready. And I wasn't sure what I wanted, but I didn't want to make any decisions until I knew. And I was proud of that. ↗

— Kody Keplinger

#freedom #sex #sexuality #freedom