Lois Lowry Quotes

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.

I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

This is a free country, and to each their own.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

A necessary corollary of giving individuals freedom to choose how to conduct their lives is acceptance of the fact that different individuals will make different choices.

Freedom of choice can harm no one.

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.