“You have to decide for yourself. It is you who must live with the outcome.”
“Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.”
“Everybody s got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it s the choices we make that define who we really are.”
“I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices.”
“At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life.”
“You have two choices in life...Choice one is to be the same and be like everyone else...Choice two is to be yourself and be a difference-maker.”
“There s a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.”
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
“I fell in love with him. But I don t just stay with him by default as if there s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”
“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.”
“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn t matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat. I don t much care where - said Alice. Then it doesn t matter which way you go, said the Cat. - so long as I get SOMEWHERE, Alice added as an explanation. Oh, you re sure to do that, said the Cat, if you only walk long enough.”
“We are our choices.”
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it s not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”
“The hardest choices in life aren t between what s right and what s wrong but between what s right and what s best.”
“Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.”
“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”