Jodi Picoult Quotes

You make your own choices. Even extramarital affair, it's your own decision. And you suffer for it and pay for it. That's what 'Ankahee' is all about.

there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

I am guilty of one thing - that I should have cleared out and not had anything to do with these criminals in the first place. Later it was too late. I was in up to my neck. But as for the atrocities, I had not a thing to do with them…

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

I did some things to some people that was downright evil. Is it karma coming back to me - so much drama.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

The law of Karma is the law of causation.

Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights, filling the kettle, taking the children to school, driving to the shops, we are condemning other people to death. We never chose to do this. We do not see ourselves as killers. We perform these acts without passion or intent.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

The best definition I've heard is that guilt is about what you've done, shame is about who you are. If something's out of my control, I don't feel shame about it, because what could I have done? If you're guilty, you can at least try to atone for it or make it better or not do it again. If it's who you are, you can't do much about it except change yourself, and that's pretty hard.

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.