“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.”
“Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..”
“I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn t end up with you.”
“Everything has a price.”
“The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.”
“You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you re some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?”
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them”
“If you decide to just go with the flow, you ll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You ll end up doing what everyone else is doing.”