Love is a choice you make everyday. — Gary Chapman
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other. — Bell Hooks
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love. — Johnny Cash
Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person. — Caroline Myss
All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here. — A.R. Rahman
The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. — Bell Hooks
True love - that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy - is a choice. It's a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances. — Mark Manson
Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other. — M. Scott Peck
...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together. — Emily Giffin
There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably. — Federico Fellini
A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other. — Dave Willis
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. — Henri Nouwen
To choose life with God is to choose a blessed life. — Brian Houston
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. — Erich Fromm
Short Choosing To Love Quotes
We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live. — Axl Rose
What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies. — Thomas Cranmer
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. — Mignon McLaughlin
Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear. — Albert Einstein
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. — Leo Buscaglia
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. — Oprah Winfrey
I've realized that being happy is a choice. — Angelina Jolie
Top 10 Choosing To Love Quotes
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. — Wayne Dyer
If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world — Albert Einstein
Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful. -Harry Styles — Harry Styles
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. — J. K. Rowling
Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me.
Today, I choose to give love. — Louise Hay
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. — Guy Debord
The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love. — Stephen Kendrick
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. — Elizabeth Gilbert
A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change. — Gabrielle Bernstein
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate. — Cory Booker
Choosing To Love Image Quotes
If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
Choosing To Love Someone Quotes
Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving. — Gary Chapman
I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody. — Bob Saget
Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon — Naoko Takeuchi
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum. — Leo Buscaglia
You can love someone with all your heart for all the right reasons, and in a moment they can choose to walk away. love 'em anyway. — Martina McBride
We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive. — Sheila Cassidy
Choose your love; love your choice.
Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with. — Greg Behrendt
When you choose to be a loving person, it's magical how love comes back to you and brightens someone's day, changing your mood and that of the world. — Jason Mraz
People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most. — Ai Yazawa
Romance isn't about proving to someone you love them with flowers and greeting cards and chocolate. Or even a lock on a fence. It's a daily reminder. It's saying, I choose you. Today and every day. — Kristen Proby
Choosing To Love You Quotes
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. — Henri Nouwen
I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. — Robert M. Sapolsky
It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think. — Gerald Jampolsky
If you love two people at the same time choose the second one. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have falled for the second
Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there. — Elif Batuman
You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world....you will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart. — Jim Carrey
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work. — Denis Waitley
There is no joy without hardship. If not for death, would we appreciate life? If not for hate, would we know the ultimate goal is love? At these moments you can either hold on to negativity and look for blame, or you can choose to heal and keep on loving. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Today, begin to believe right by choosing to know and believe in the powerful truths of God’s Word and in His love for you. — Joseph Prince
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore. — Lady Gaga
I don't think God cares if you are rich or poor. God loves you anyway. But if you want to be rich, then choose your church & preacher carefully. — Robert Kiyosaki
Love Is A Choice Quotes
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. — Amy Bloom
I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic! One thing is certain: if I ever choose to feature a tailgating spread for Taste of the Town, LSU will be at the top of the list. — Todd Blackledge
Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love. — Gary Chapman
Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match. — Lysa TerKeurst
Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act of obedience is a seed that will produce a multiplied harvest of blessing in my life and in the lives of those I love. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing. — John Robbins
It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore. — Lysa TerKeurst
I now discover how wonderful I am. I choose to love and enjoy myself. — Louise Hay
Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him. — Maximus the Confessor
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. — James Allen
Learning To Love Quotes
You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them. — Tupac Shakur
You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served". — Nina Simone
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
Whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because its the best thing going. Wooooo! — Ric Flair
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. — Carol S. Dweck
Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes. — Billy Graham
Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I hope you learn to love yourself for who you are and what you look like, and how you were born to be, because you are perfect in your own way. — Tyler Oakley
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else. — Mother Teresa
Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions. — Alfie Kohn
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck
I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens. — T Bone Burnett
I love learning how the world works, but more importantly, how it is going to work. — Cathie Wood
What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself. — Kelly Brook
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go — Jack Kornfield
In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period. — Carter Heyward
I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others. — Marlo Morgan
Embracing Love Quotes
Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in. — Coretta Scott King
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry. — Hosea Ballou
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! — Sitting Bull
The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it. — Adyashanti
Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. — Jim Henson
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference. — Lou Holtz
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa
I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten. — Jenny Colgan
Courage To Love Quotes
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame. — Alexander The Great
Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man. — John F. Kennedy
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being. — Maya Angelou
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. — Maya Angelou
It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping. — Saint Francis de Sales
Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation. — Paulo Freire
You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams. — Oprah Winfrey
If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. — Michel Foucault
You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now. — Mother Angelica
There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion. — Ibn Arabi
Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves. — Andrew the Apostle
Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things. — Leo Buscaglia
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it. — William Faulkner
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me. — C. S. Lewis
Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate. — Rick Warren
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am. — Anais Nin
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. — Susan Polis Schutz
Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. — M. Scott Peck
Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss
If you make your relationship with your Inner Being your top priority, and you deliberately choose thoughts that allow your alignment, you will consistently offer the greatest advantage to others with whom you interact. Only when you are aligned with your Source do you have anything to offer another. — Esther Hicks
Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world. — Marianne Williamson
It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight the bass. There is room here for my children to play and grow, and become good citizens-if the white man will let them. — Medgar Evers
We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it. — C. S. Lewis
If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world. — Jack Nicklaus
I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose. — Margaret Cho
Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love. — Neil Patrick Harris
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. — Margaret of Valois
Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love — Kabir Helminski
The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us. — Leslie Morgan Steiner
I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them. — Frank Laubach
It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way. — Hannah Hurnard
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much. — Adam Johnson
This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it. — Helen Humphreys
Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative assumptions. And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive. — Stephen Kendrick
There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love. — Ted Dekker
At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world's population is malnourished, choosing to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat is better for all of us-ourselves, our loved ones, and our planet. — Dean Ornish
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