#choices

It is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things ... I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount ... No ... we always have a choice. All of us." (p. 323) ↗

— M.L. Stedman

#choices #forgiveness #happiness #hate #forgiveness

Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person can make me denounce my past. It made me who I am today, and the choices I make from this moment on are what will ultimately define me. ↗

— Julie-Anne

#forgiveness #god #past #forgiveness

Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #freedom #love #freedom

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#books #boyfriend #choices #faith #family

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#heritage #identity #upbringing #life

At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become. ↗

— Leo Babauta

#life #questions #wisdom #life

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#fear #life

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us. ↗

— Ken Levine

#consequences #decisions #life #life

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick. ↗

— Ron Rash

#life #mistakes #life

The most important trip you will take in your life will usually be the most scariest. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life-mission #life-purpose #relationships #spiritual-journeys #life