#choice

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#always #aspect #away #carried #cases

I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#choice #emotions #friendship #love #scarlet

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus. ↗

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

#focus #inspirational

All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not just making an affirmation of love; he is also negating his love for anyone else. In that one act by which he chooses her, he rejects all that is not her. There is no other real way in which to prove we love a thing than by choosing it in preference to something else. Word and signs of love may be, and often are, expressions of egotism or passion; but deeds are proofs of love. We can prove we love our Lord only by choosing Him in preference to anything else. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#god #love #marriage #love

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. ↗

— Jane Austen

#husbands #marriage #parents #proposals #marriage

The easiest thing is to say no. What's not so easy is telling yourself to stop. ↗

— Alix

#choices #life #life

The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#heart #immense #nature #power #resource

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#life #truth #life

Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Galway Kinnell recently said in an interview that a young poet has so many choices but an old poet must simply endure his chosen life. ↗

— Mary Ruefle

#poetry #youth #life

Some things you sentence yourself to life for. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#consequences #life