Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Life, as I’ve learned, fails to be a concrete, concise package that can easily be wrapped up and contained. Life is full of messy, unpredictable circumstances that test not only our characters, but the people...

No matter what choice you make, it doesn’t define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices...

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they...

You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you’re some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?

Do not be so attached to life otherwise you will end up struggling for life. Choice is yours.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you...

Sometimes love is not enough.

When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour or smile and look for rainbows.

We are faced with choices every moment of our lives. Whatever choice we exercise must make us comfortable and at peace. Choices that are made out of fear and anxiety often do not lead to...

You’ve said life is a series of choices, but I think it’s also a series of opportunities, a series of lessons, a series of moments all strung together that loops around into a lifetime—it’s a...

A small profit it better than a big loss

The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence.

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one’s affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or...

My greatest fear is having to face God and explain to Him why I wasn’t able to fulfill my purpose.

For good-intentioned people making decisions, there’s no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn’t matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art...

Respectfully, sir, the asteroid did not make you leave her. The asteroid is not making anyone do anything. It’s just a big piece of rock floating through space. Anything anyone does remains their own decision.

It’s very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn’t any choice.

Who can be 100 percent sure of one’s choices in life? How do you know that your beloved will always remain the same, or that you’ll never change your mind? Growth and change are two...

He shrugged, “…my conscience rests easiest if I do only what I see as best in the moment…

You know why I cannot.

We lust after the material things in life, then in a blink of an eye; the life which was once given is taken; is there a point in stressing over the small stuff.

Last of all, this book owes perhaps its biggest debt to the ultimate models for Kira and Heron and every other awesome girl in the Partials series: my two daughters. May you always have heroines...

Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That’s why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!

I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices – and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn’t resolve them.

Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

It’s coming, a battle between Starclan and The Dark Forest and every warrior will be called upon to fight.

He made some bad choices and got in some bad situations but we need him to make plays. We don’t have other guys to make plays.

Thirteen years of friendship had bonded us together more thoroughly than if we had been born of the same mother. Even at this late stage, I was unwilling to let him go.

Like the ripples from a stone tossed into the pond from the water’s edge, the effects of our choices extend infinitely outward. Even the smallest of acts reverberates in the ears of unwritten histories.

The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea.

But when we make choices that are different than what our friends are doing, it might seem to them that we are questioning their choices – even if it has nothing to do with them…....

I chose him. If I chose him, he had to be the right choice. I wouldn’t love him if it weren’t right.

There passed a child of four, a small girl on a footpath over the fields, going home in the evening to Erl. They looked at each other with round eyes.”Hullo,” said the child.”Hullo, child of...

I’m pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices.

The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.

Lord I submit my body to You. Help me to be disciplined in the way I care for it. Help me to choose health-filled and life-giving foods and be able to resist eating what I...

I wonder where we are going,” I said.”Wherever the way is going,” Exi replied calmly.”But where do you suppose the way is going?””Wherever we go.””That doesn’t really make sense, does it?””Oh, yes. Quite good sense.””Why?””Do...

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

Pay attention: Are your daily choices in alignment with the life you want for yourself? If not, nothing will change.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an...

Acquiring knowledge doesn’t bring power into your life, until you apply what you have learned.

Silence is a lie that screams at the light.

When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become fogged with the lack of perception stained with the sting of longing. The...