It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley
... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
After all is said and done, you are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.
Family we cannot always choose, but it sure is fun to try and make them laugh during dinners. Especially when they are trying to eat their soup.
None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.
Neil said to me once that in times of desperation, you have to force yourself to make a decision. It's your choice, he said. Us or them. So choose.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.
The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.
If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.
Your success lies behind your choices... To get there, you must choose it and drive your dreams in that chosen direction!
Life is choice. You can choose to be who you dream to be or not to be. It all lies in the choice you make every day!
You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never an option!
All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.
I figure whatever I choose to create, I'll be neglecting somebody - so my art may as well make me happy. - Audrey Niffenegger
