Quotes About Choosing Your Own Life

#1. Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas Jefferson was talking about.

Eric Foner

#2. The most dangerous truth a Confessor knows is that the rules of society are just consensual hallucinations. Choosing to wake up from the dream means choosing to end your life.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#3. If you are going to go to the trouble of choosing healthy food for your plate, shouldn't you also choose healthy people for your life?

Ramani Durvasula

#4. Was that hard-hearted? Well, so what if it was. She'd been through enough to harden anyone. It was none of her choosing; all she'd done was clung on to her life like a spar from a shipwreck. Better to be hardened than crushed to nothing.

Emma Donoghue

#5. Beat sprouts, I croaked, ashamed I'd reached a point in my life where I had to make decisions like choosing between bean sprouts or potato chips (and then going with fucking bean sprouts!).

Brando Skyhorse

#6. The cycle of God, the good, is broken by a single act of negativity. The cycle of negativity is stopped by choosing the good
not just once, but again and again until it is goodness that prevails in your life and in our world altogether.

John Morton

#7. For the most part, most people most often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have ...

Peter McWilliams

#8. I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

Jim Henson

#9. Every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

Terri Blackstock

#10. Thank you, Dear Creator, for Life. Thank you for Dreams. Thank you for Ideas and Thoughts and Feelings. Most of all, thank you for choosing me to grow - just for today - and to know the Wonder of Your World and its many Possibilities.

Janie Jasin

#11. Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

Andre Agassi

#12. Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.

Gabrielle Giffords

#13. In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life's journey.

David O. McKay

#14. It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

Clarence Clemons

#15. Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

Orison Swett Marden

#16. The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice.

Jean Cocteau

#17. Choosing one thing usually doesn't mean killing all of the other options forever. Oftentimes, you can always go back and change your mind if you want. If not, and you realize the decision did not pan out the way you had hoped, you now have a lesson for future decisions.

Chris Hardwick

#18. Choice, what people really want, is the most important thing. Choosing the life you want, making your own choices-that is what defines you as human.

Megan Frampton

#19. Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life ...

James A. Murphy

#20. The value of your life is your own choosing, Nathan

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#21. It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

Caitlyn Jenner

#22. Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

Paulo Coelho

#23. We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

Deena Kastor

#24. Faith is choosing and believing God's dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.

Rick Warren

#25. Changes in life, taking the turning point.
Everyone passes numerous paths along the road of life. There's a dilemma when it comes to choosing.

Hlovate

#26. To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

Donald Miller

#27. 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

#28. Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.

Jacob M. Appel

#29. In order to understand more it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which side of the fence we feel compelled to belong,

J.P. Robinson

#30. Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

Dale Dauten

#31. When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

Mark Nepo

#32. When you make a choice, you change the future.

Deepak Chopra

#33. Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission

Calvin Miller

#34. By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#35. It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

Learned Hand

#36. I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

Harvey Pekar

#37. Your job is just one tiny part of your life. We talk so much about choosing jobs or selecting careers. But what if we chose a life instead?

Emily Ley

#38. It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.

Earl Nightingale

#39. Choosing not only the battle but also the timing is the best way to deal with what may occur.

Steven Redhead

#40. Keep your focus on the things you can actually control. Choosing to center on anything else will either stop you in your tracks or significantly slow you down.

Sherene McHenry