Choosing To Love Quotes

#1. The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Stephen Kendrick

#2. But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.

Yiyun Li

#3. It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.

Robin Jones Gunn

#4. Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Forgiveness is choosing to love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#7. Choosing to love is a choice.

Matthew Krajewski

#8. Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is.

Chriscinthia Blount

#9. I wonder if we protect ourselves from our fears by choosing to love people we cannot get near so they cannot hurt us.

Sara Alexi

#10. I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.

Suzanne Palmieri

#11. The bride waits here," she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming to drift away. "This is the moment you think about what you're doing. Who you're choosing. Who you will love. If it's right, Eddie, this can be such a wonderful moment.

Mitch Albom

#12. Choosing to interpret all your experiences from a place of love will allow you to strengthen and empower yourself, while moving closer to the divine light.

Renae A. Sauter

#13. Life is presenting every person and circumstance to you so you can choose what you love and what you don't love. When you react to anything, you are reacting with your feelings, and as you do so, you are choosing it.

Rhonda Byrne

#14. Most people use less brains in selecting the person with whom they are to spend their lives than they do in choosing an automobile, a bicycle or a cut of steak. Love isn't enough; there must also be understanding.

Elsie Lincoln Benedict

#15. Love is not like choosing a partner for whist. It has a life of its own. our duty is merely to follow its call.

Dominic Smith

#16. People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.

Wilhelm Reich

#17. Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room when the going gets tough.

Jennifer Aniston

#18. I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go.

Masha Tupitsyn

#19. I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

Bonnie Tyler

#20. Sex is merely a genetic joint venture. the process of choosing somebody to have sex with, which used to be known as falling in love, is mysterious, cerebral, and highly selective.

Matt Ridley

#21. I chose to spend the day with you. And I'm choosing now to have dinner with you.

Lisa Brown Roberts

#22. We all die, Damian. Before I do, I want to love with all my heart. Give all I have, experience all I can, and leave behind some piece of me that will never be forgotten. I want to enjoy the time I have left. I'm choosing life. Moments. Memories. For you.

D. Nichole King

#23. Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?

Debasish Mridha

#24. Revolution might sound a little dramatic, but in this world, choosing authenticity and worthiness is an absolute act of resistance. Choosing to live and love with our whole hearts is an act of defiance. You're going to confuse, piss off, and terrify lots of people - including yourself. One

Brene Brown

#25. Refusing to acknowledge and embrace your sinful past is choosing your love for yourself over your love of God.

Stephen Arterburn

#26. Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."

Betsy Landin

#27. For those who think religious people live in a constant state of fear and quaking, compare Ps 111:10 to Ps 112:7. There, you will find that the person who fears God will not fear anyone, or anything else. This is not living in fear. By choosing one fear, they are liberated from the many fears.

Michael Ben Zehabe

#28. When we ask it about our current path, we must look at the values we have chosen to live by. Where do we put our time, our strength, our creativity, our love? We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration, or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

Jack Kornfield

#29. I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.

Christian Bale

#30. Getting your nails done with your man is so much fun. Having them help you out choosing the color, I love that. I think it's great to get a man's perspective on nails and to sit there to get your nails done with him.

Adrienne Bailon

#31. Would you like me to let you go home to your love today?" he asked. It was obvious that my preference for someone else bothered him, but instead of choosing to ve angry, he showed compassion.

Kiera Cass

#32. You know I'm not trying to hurt you."
"Really? Then why does it feel that way? I love you. And you're choosing not to love me back. That hurts pretty damn bad.

S.D. Hendrickson

#33. We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.

Bell Hooks

#34. Your world is reborn each day... And you are allowed to start over, at least in spirit, choosing your way with a beginners mind. Open wide the doors and windows, or close them and sit by the fire. But wherever you are, make room for the new, the uncertain, the mystery.. and love...

Jack Kornfield

#35. Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.

Bill Crawford

#36. Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness.

Asa Don Brown

#37. I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.

Adriana Trigiani

#38. Choosing courage does not mean that we're unafraid, it means that we are brave enough to love despite the fear and uncertainty.

Brene Brown

#39. When you receive God's love, it means you're getting close to Him, spending time in His presence, opening your heart to Him, seeking to know Him, and desiring to be more like Him. Remember that choosing to receive God's love changes your life.

Stormie O'martian

#40. I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#41. Even though it can be hopeless, or unhealthy, or just stupid, we love anyway. Because that's what love is. Choosing to give it, especially when you shouldn't.

Kelsey Sutton

#42. Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it's not how people meet their destiny. It's time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, 'how can I do both?' And, then, we can find solutions.

Maynard Webb

#43. I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the chains of the cage. I needed this woman. Without her to choose over myself, there was only pain and not choosing, rolling drunkenly and making fantasies of death.

David Foster Wallace

#44. I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily
choosing love, then choosing it again ... how loving and being in love could be so different.

Sue Monk Kidd

#45. I would love to do theater. But I am very picky when choosing theater. I just won't do anything.

Ana Layevska

#46. How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Jodi Picoult

#47. We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us ... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

J.I. Packer

#48. Sometimes believing is as simple as choosing to do so.

Osman Welela

#49. It's not that he's choosing me, a girl he met less than a month ago
he's choosing a world in which no one has to die.

Amie Kaufman

#50. People who own their lives do not feel guilty when they make choices about where they are going. They take other people into consideration, but when they make choices for the wishes of others, they are choosing out of love, not guilt; to advance a good, not to avoid a bad.

Henry Cloud

#51. The one thing I have learnt and continue to learn is that choosing to give love and receive love is not so easy at times, but it is the most courageous thing you can do. Expressing

ERYKA STANTON

#52. Even though I avoid buying clothes that are 'in fashion', choosing things I fall in love with and wearing them till they fall apart - and generally going for vintage when it comes to evening wear - I still, like every woman I know, suffer from occasional pangs of 'clothes guilt'.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#53. There is no greater gift of love than that of an animal choosing to share part of his soul's journey here with you.

Amy Miller

#54. Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

Bell Hooks

#55. Sometimes you don't get to choose your partner. Life chooses it for you.

C.M. Stunich

#56. The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of survival.

Merle Hoffman

#57. Choosing to break up your family is one of the most difficult decisions you will make in a lifetime. But once you have come to it; it will be with certainty. Certainty that you are ready to embrace the changes, the challenges and the joys of starting a new life.

Lisa Thomson

#58. And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?

Pope Francis

#59. The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.

Niecy Nash

#60. Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass half full is a struggle we all must make.

Jaycee Dugard

#61. Choosing to accept yourself is a political act. An act of liberation.

Francesca Martinez

#62. You cannot expect a man to love you, but not because of your body or physical construction. It is like giving a man the option between choosing you and a monkey.

M.F. Moonzajer

#63. Start watching out for any thoughts or feelings that are immature, angry, inaccurate, selfish, weak, scared, dramatic, or in any way based in fear. In those moments, start to practice consciously choosing love for yourself and others instead.

Kimberly Giles

#64. Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on - and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don't love.

Ramit Sethi

#65. We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic.

Bell Hooks

#66. I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

Blake Bailey

#67. Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.

Anne Lamott

#68. I love princesses. And I think Cinderella is very strong. She's a young woman thinking outside of her environment, outside of her current situation, and she is choosing to believe that all is possible for her. And I think that is so admirable.

Keke Palmer

#69. As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black' choices. For example, joining the swim team when it is a known fact that 'black folk don't swim'; or choosing to become a vegetarian when blacks clearly love chicken.

Issa Rae

#70. Today, begin to believe right by choosing to know and believe in the powerful truths of God's Word and in His love for you.

Joseph Prince

#71. My family and I cook at home almost every day together. The kitchen is the central and most important room in the house; it's a great way for us to connect. We love going to the farmer's market on Sundays as a family and choosing the ingredients together.

Jose Andres