Quotes about Choice
Most of us learn to trust, not because we're noble, brave, or godly, and certainly not because we have it together, but when we don't have any other choice.
— Chip Ingram
You can live under the weight of your past or the weight of forgiveness. If you choose the former, you'll constantly be working off the guilt like someone who overeats at the holidays.
— Chris Fabry
You cannot plan for love. You cannot choose against it once it has come.
— Chris Fabry
There had been a connection long ago, but that had been severed. Something in me wanted to hold on, to roll back the clock and never let him go, but I had made my choice, as he had, and we had to live with our choices.
— Chris Fabry
One choice changes the construction of a life. You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.
— Chris Fabry
There're some things that can't be helped. They just are. You either live with them or you don't. Simple as that. There's nothing simple about it. You got that right. You certainly got that right.
— Chris Fabry
There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
— Angela Duckworth
Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.
— Toni Morrison
I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life.
— Toni Morrison
Well, if a man don't HAVE a chance, then he has to TAKE a chance!
— Toni Morrison
You are nothing but wilderness. No constraint. No mind. You shout the word—mind, mind, mind—over and over and then you laugh, saying as I live and breathe, a slave by choice.
— Toni Morrison
Girls can do that. Steer a man away from death or drive him to it.
— Toni Morrison