Charles de Lint Quotes

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

But if it matters to you, you'll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account." "Really?" "It did for me," said Harry. He had never told any of his children that before, and he saw the wonder in Albus's face when he said it.

Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant.

Free will means that you have the choice to connect to spirit... or not.

Follow thou thy choice.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.

There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.

...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

Freedom is always wise.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions.

The pleasure is our choice.

Because I always have a choice, I choose love.