“Life is indeed a gamble, the ultimate game of chance, based purely upon having the ability to make the right choices at the right time. You never win or lose in life if you realise it is all just for the experience. Learn to create your own destiny, don t wait to see what fate throws your way.”
“Henry was right—I let everyone else s feelings affect my decisions. Screw that. I m taking the ball and running with it. Maybe they re not my top choices, but they re choices that are good for me, choices I can live with. Some things I can t control; but some things I can. And I m going to.”
“...When a choice will make a real difference in our lives—obvious or not—and when we are living in tune with the Spirit and seeking his guidance, we can be sure we will receive the guidance we need to attain our goal.”
“Life is a treasure-chest of opportunities, choices, and time. Unfortunately, the choice many people make is to argue about the details of the chest instead of seizing the treasure within it.”
“Circumstances don t determine who you are, or what you will be. Only you do that. You either decide, or you don t. Even the decision not to decide was still yours.”
“Ever felt like you are more than flesh and bones and blood that decay back into cosmic dirt? You are. Your existence did not begin with your birth and it will not end with your death. Your soul lived before and will live on and on and on...so what you do now matters later. Choose wisely.”
“Do what is right because it is right.”
“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.”
“The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.”
“It s one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.”
“The direction you choose to face determines whether you re standing at the end or the beginning of a road.”
“Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It s kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it s no good to complain about your flock, because it s the put-together of all your past choices.”
“The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow. I ve got to go back, haven t I? That is up to you. I ve got a choice? Oh yes. Dumbledore smiled at him. We are in King s Cross, you say? I think that if you decided not to go back, you would be able to…let s say…board a train. And where would it take me? On, said Dumbledore simply.”
“The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life.”
“He is worse than the others, I show. He is worst of all of them. Because– Because he knew he was doing wrong. He felt the pain of his actions– But he did not amend them, shows the Sky. The rest are worth as much as their pack animals, I show, but worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.”
“Our lives are like these things I make. Turn em, build em, bake em in fire. That s what you ve been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don t have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.”
“Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions; that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life.”