Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.
I believe that - love is a choice. I believe that we love, that if I'm forced to love you then I don't know that I've really loved you.
I'm an emotional person. I chose films based on emotions.
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.
Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?
I'll take lying in your arms tonight over and above any love I've known. Memories may find me, but they'll always be behind me. I'll take today over yesterday, anyday.
If loving you is wrong, then I'll just like you a whole bunch!
Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?
Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it’s something that’s very natural to care about—it’s a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it’s a significant emotional choice people make.
When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.
I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, between 'Do I stay where I am with my family because I love them or do I follow the thing that makes my heart feel the greatest?'
Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.
Asking me to choose between a traditional book and a Kindle is like asking me which of my dogs I love most.
We have a choice every day between fear and love.
I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me. - Oliver Hazzard-Perry
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
You do not HAVE to be angry just because you have the right to be angry.
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Nobody has the power to make you miserable . . . unless you choose to give them that power. Choose to enjoy every drop of today!
I love music but, of course, I'd choose love over that.
