The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable...

Your life is not a simulation; it’s the real game. Play wisely.

It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right...

We make choices and are in turn made by them.

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn’t choose right, things got narrow real quick.

If you want change and don’t make choices that reflect the change, you are making a choice to keep things the same.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it’ll be my choice.

Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others...

When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of...

I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It’s from those circumstances that a person’s attitude is...

You can’t be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.

In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived.

I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. But now...

Our lives are made up of choices. Big ones, small ones, strung together by the thin air of good intentions; a line of dominoes, ready to fall. Which shirt to wear on a cold winter’s...

America is like a roomy cage; just enough choice-space where the animal doesn’t go wild and feels free.

We do not have control over what happens to us in life, but we do have control over how we chose to respond.

I love you enough to tell you the truth whether you want to hear it or not, but what you do afterward is your choice alone.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment “flattens the terrain of power relations.” In other words, we can talk about doing...

You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, ‘Well, you know, she’s just a mother.’ And I was absolutely incensed by that comment. Now, I...

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

War is an option of difficulties.

Dê uma boa olhada nas suas escolhas antes de culpar metade do mundo pelos seus erros.

Let your life choices tell others of your wonderful God as you walk through life worshiping Him.

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you’re certain it’s the wrong road and you tell them, but they won’t listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know...

Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn’t have chosen my own husband. And here I’m thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws…

I don’t know that money managers controlling billions of dollars are going to make major choices based on this minor development,

Just because you can make a choice, doesn’t mean you should. Some things are better left alone.

He doesn’t like batting sixth? He’s got two choices: Not playing or batting sixth,

Give us being and feeling over having any day.

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed.

Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass...

Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.

Until YOU get enough of what you’re going through, no matter what advice a person gives you, you’ll continue to go through the same thing. When you get the courage to stop making excuses for...

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it – whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.

What you choose today will determine who you are tomorrow.

Choose to do more than just exist; choose to live.

It’s nice that I get to talk to you all. Every one of you will be faced with choices, and whatever choices you make could define the rest of your life.

The lesson will always repeat itself, unless you see yourself as the problem–not others.

When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you...

It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom.

Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However,...

Patriotism is a thing difficult to put into words. It is neither precisely an emotion nor an opinion, nor a mandate, but a state of mind — a reflection of our own personal sense of...

You’re loco, Carlos. Insane. Totally crazy… Most guys think they’re imperfect for still being virgins past the age of seventeen.

And so it is, that if you believe it you can honestly choose what you want to be. But choose carefully, with your intuition, and have the courage to trust your choice! It is vital...

The purpose of your life is the purpose you bring to it choice by choice and recognition by recognition.

Perhaps someday, when you are a father, Prince, you will understand how empty is your heart if your child is a hollow toy that you can move where you will him to be

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.