Choosing Quotes

• 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
  • Love
  • Dreams
  • Weakness

• My process of choosing scripts remains the same. Of whatever I read and whatever excites me is what I will continue to take up.

  

  Rajkummar Rao
  • Process
  • Scripts
  • Remains

• Choosing to laugh doesn’t undermine the serious work we have to do. It enables us to do it.

  

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  • Work
  • Laugh
  • Enables

• The method entails deliberating competently about all alternative courses of action which may or may not conduce to achieving your goals, attempting to anticipate the consequences of each course of action, and then choosing and sticking to one.

  

  Edith Hall
  • Action
  • Achieving
  • Alternative

• By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Healthy
  • Recovery
  • Boundaries

• 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
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Sexual Orientation

• I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

  

  Ezra Cornell
  • Life
  • Affair
  • Companion

• So much must be established at birth . . . in the random choosing of a name.

  

  Bill Barich
  • Name
  • Birth
  • Choosing

• 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
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Discovery

• The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.

  

  Alexander Stoddart
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Choosing

• I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Knowing
  • Counsel
  • Contriving

• The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

  

  Sue Monk Kidd
  • Matter
  • Hardest
  • Choosing

• Remember that deciding is not doing, and wanting is not choosing. Transformation will take place not because of what you decide you want, but because of what you choose to do.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Remember
  • Transformation
  • Choosing

• It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Illusion
  • Pretend
  • Choosing

• The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or redefine - ourselves.

  

  Stephen J. Dubner
  • Desire
  • Religion
  • Define

• You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo.

  

  Arlene Dahl
  • Man
  • Smart
  • Choosing

• While Otto ran here and there, carefully choosing places to urinate, I felt over every inch of my body the scratches of sexual abandonment, the danger of drowning in scorn for myself and nostalgia for him. I got up and went back along the path; I whistled again, and waited for Otto to return.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Nostalgia
  • Scorn
  • Abandonment

• ...choosing words is harder than I thought.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Words
  • Thought
  • Choosing

• I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.

  

  Bob Goff
  • People
  • Choosing
  • Shared

• There was a dark satisfaction in choosing to remain wounded, yet he had seen what happened to Henry when he cut himself off from love.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Satisfaction
  • Choosing
  • Wounded

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