We can't always have our druthers.
Harper LeeTags: life reality choice motivation decision
I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL . . .
BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK . .
. . IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS
Tags: inspirational happiness choice belief humour goal sarcasm irony limit focus
We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
David LevithanTags: life happiness choice contentment
Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.
Lauren OliverRaven looks at me. “What about you, Lena?”
I can feel Alex’s eyes on me. My mouth is so dry; the sun is so blinding. I look away, toward the hundreds and hundreds of people who have been driven out of their homes, out of their lives, to this place of dust and dirtiness, all because they wanted the power to feel, to think, to choose for themselves. They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all.
But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.
Coral shifts, and moves her hand to Alex’s arm.
“I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.
Tags: choice julian lena-halloway
God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.
C.J. LangenhovenSo maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. The dragons are dangerous, yes. They can do harm, yes. But they're not evil. They're beneath our morality, if you will, like any animal. Or beyond it. They have nothing to do with it.
We must choose and choose again. The animals need only be and do. We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom...
Tags: animals choice morality good-and-evil
Choice- Everyone has them, so take control!
MordakhiWe are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.
Lauren OliverTags: choice punishment
Meg,” he whispered. “It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That’s why there’s evil in this world, because there’s free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.
Laura Anderson KurkTags: choice free-will evil god faith christian young-adult-fiction teen-fiction ya-fiction glass-girl henry-whitmire meg-kavanagh laura-anderson-kurk
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