Top 96 Quotes About Choosing Love
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways.
Cassandra Clare
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Remember, if you don't consciously choose trust and love, you are unconsciously choosing fear.
Kimberly Giles
#9. 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
#10. I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.
Suzanne Palmieri
#11. 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
#12. You can't just make people fall in love, right? Love is way more complicated than that. It's not just a matter of choosing a couple of people and making them ask each other some questions, and then love blossoms. The moon and the stars are involved. I'm certain of it.
Nicola Yoon
#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. when confused , choose love above everything
Anynomous
#15. An honorable man would have given her up before she fell in love, choosing a small hurt over a bigger one later. But I wasn't that honorable. I wanted her more than I'd wanted anything in a long time, and I would have her until she couldn't bear it any longer.
C.D. Reiss
#16. But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.
Toni Morrison
#17. 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
#18. By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!
Steve Maraboli
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.
C.S. Lewis
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Until you get comfortable with being alone, you'll never know if you're choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
Mandy Hale
#26. I chose to spend the day with you. And I'm choosing now to have dinner with you.
Lisa Brown Roberts
#27. Refusing to acknowledge and embrace your sinful past is choosing your love for yourself over your love of God.
Stephen Arterburn
#28. Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway.
Bryant McGill
#29. 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
#30. Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Life is choosing whom and what you love. Everything else follows.
Todd Johnson
#35. 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
#36. Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness.
Asa Don Brown
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Choosing whom you love is the most political decision you can make.
Meera Syal
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Every moment of our lives we make choices. Most we don't even know we're making, they're so dull or routine or automatic. Some are beyond explanation - like my mom choosing Wyatt's memory over Dad and me.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#43. Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Choosing an unconventional career path - I am not a traditional Egyptologist by any means. I found what I love, and I have stuck with it.
Sarah Parcak
#50. I am choosing a love that defies boundaries and a life that defies boundaries. That is the power of Celeste.
Jessica Park
#51. 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
#52. The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.
Niecy Nash
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#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. Sometimes you don't get to choose your partner. Life chooses it for you.
C.M. Stunich
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is.
Chriscinthia Blount
#64. 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
#65. Sometimes believing is as simple as choosing to do so.
Osman Welela
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
Jodi Picoult
#69. I would love to do theater. But I am very picky when choosing theater. I just won't do anything.
Ana Layevska
#70. In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth.
Helen Quist Milligan
#71. 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
#72. Was it really that simple? Choosing a life? ...
Maybe you don't fall in love. Maybe you jump.
Maybe, just maybe, it's all a choice.
(Josh Matteson)
Sarah Addison Allen
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. There are three faithful friends in our life,an old wife,an old dog and ready money. A real friend is one who always warms you.
Love is blind. Friendship close it eyes.
Benjamin Franklin
#76. 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
#77. Love is pain. You can't have one without the other. There's no picking and choosing experiences. The good comes with the bad.
Shyla Colt
#78. 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
#79. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!
Richard Bach
#84. 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
#86. Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?
Debasish Mridha
#87. 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
#88. I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.
Blake Bailey
#89. 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
#90. Choose love by choosing acceptance over anger.
James Doyle
#91. 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
#92. One doesn't have the option of choosing who they fall in love with. The heart decides with a perseverance greater than human strength
K.J. Bell
#93. 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
#94. Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
Nancy Lublin
#95. Choosing to accept yourself is a political act. An act of liberation.
Francesca Martinez
#96. 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
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