Have you ever thought about how empowering the phrase love is a choice truly is? These simple, yet profound quotes remind us that love, in its purest form, is more than just a fleeting feeling or a spontaneous emotion. It's a deliberate decision, a commitment to cherish, nurture, and protect the bond we share with others. Each time we choose love, we actively participate in crafting our own narrative of joy, affection, and fulfillment. Isn't it inspiring to know that we have that power?
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 not words, it's actions, and love isn't feelings, it's a decision. — Steven Furtick
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
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. — Erich Fromm
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 your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love. — Johnny Cash
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
Love is not in our choice but in our fate. — John Dryden
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 my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here. — A.R. Rahman
Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. — Selwyn Hughes
Love is not a because, it's a no matter what. — Jodi Picoult
Short Love Is A Choice Quotes
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do. — David Wilkerson
In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty. — R. C. Sproul
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. — David Wilkerson
Worship isn't a feeling you wait for, it's a choice you make. — Chris Tomlin
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find. — Wayne Dyer
Strong faith is not an emotion. It's a choice. — Jason Frenn
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. — Ken Kesey
Love is action.
It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible. — Byron Katie
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. — Bell Hooks
Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Love Is A Choice Image Quotes
The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them.
Falling In Love Is A Choice 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
Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. — John Spence
Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. We fall in love with someone for a reason. That reason is either temporary or permanent. — Mark Patterson
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.
When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love. — Peter Morgan
Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable. — M. Scott Peck
Love Is Not 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
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
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
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice. — Saint John Chrysostom
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
Some people never change their mind through their whole lives, about anything, despite new information that comes in. And now that we know that homosexuality is not a choice, it's biological, I think we have to love and understand them. — Dick Van Dyke
Choose your love; love your choice.
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. — Carter Heyward
Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. — Mitch Albom
Not everyone would choose to pay the costly price of being a great artist. To many, the riches of life are quite different. A skill in day-to-day living which adds up to a happy, love-filled life is success. You can have this and other riches, too. The choice is yours. — W. Clement Stone
Do I Have A Choice Quotes
And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality. — Robert Musil
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives. — Adrienne Rich
I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed. — Jordan Belfort
Love is not by choice
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist. — Nina Simone
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy. — Samuel Richardson
I think you can learn to have much more pleasant thoughts moving through your mind that will help ease any situation, and it takes making a conscious choice to do so. — Louise Hay
There's a lot of things in my past that wouldn't have necessarily been my choices but at the same time, going back in time and changing something, I wouldn't want to do that because I like where I came out. — Taylor Momsen
I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade. — Bret Easton Ellis
I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way. — Cloris Leachman
It’s probably the most unpopular policy I’m responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don’t like. — David Cameron
Choice Quotes
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. — Bob Marley
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. — Ralph Marston
We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything. — Charles R. Swindoll
In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice. — DJ Khaled
Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. — Stephen Curry
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
Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. — Liam James
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
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
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
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
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 is very simple. What I give out comes back to me.
Today, I choose to give love. — Louise Hay
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
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
Power Of Choice Quotes
When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government. — Alexander Hamilton
You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. — Taylor Swift
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger. — Kgalema Motlanthe
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today? — Albert Camus
Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity. — Henepola Gunaratana
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. — Ralph Marston
Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character. — Lysa TerKeurst
Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead. — Kara Goucher
Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth. — Rob Bell
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
willingness to learn is a choice. — Brian Herbert
Happiness Is A Choice Quotes
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. — Anonymous
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. — Milton H. Erickson
Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within. — John Spence
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. — Jim Rohn
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them. — Ralph Waldo Trine
Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice. — Naval Ravikant
The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a skill that you develop and a choice that you make. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. — Naval Ravikant
Happiness is a choice. You can actually achieve it and there is a method to make it happen. Happiness is not a coincidence, it is not given to you by life, it’s entirely our responsibility. — Mo Gawdat
You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes. — Douglas Malloch
As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate. — David Deida
Thankfulness is not something God gives us. It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can receive God's peace, joy and love, but thankfulness is something that we give to Godand to others. It is a choice that we make. Let us thank Him today with songs of celebration, hearts of strong devotion and acts of admiration. — Roy Lessin
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
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
An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone. — Eknath Easwaran
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
I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what's funny is when you say that people assume that you are pro-abortion. I don't love abortion but I want women to be able to choose and I don't want white dudes in an office being able to make laws on things like this. I mean what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers? — Ellen Page
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
To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law of grace and love - but that one must do so. The first obligation of the Christian is to maintain their freedom from all superstitions, all blind taboos and religious formalities, indeed from all empty forms of legalism. — Thomas Merton
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
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. — Gloria Naylor
The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment. — Marianne Williamson
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal. — C. S. Lewis
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate. — Erich Fromm
And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator. — Francis Schaeffer
Love is a thousand things, but at the center is a choice. It is a choice to love people. Left to myself, i get quiet and bitter and critical. i get angry. i feel sorry for myself. It is a choice to love people. It is a choice to be kind. It is a choice to be patient, to be honest, to live with grace. i would like to start making better choices. — Jamie Tworkowski
Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing. — Isha Judd
I think we all make our own families, whether they're comprised of blood relations or friends. Some people are lucky and love their families. Others aren't. But whom we spend time with is always a choice. Including our pets. — Jane Cleland
A millionaire is a person who is free, who does what she loves, who has unlimited materials, her choice of tools, abundance, inspiration, freedom and an inflated sense of entitlement to have, create and get more. — Sara Genn
Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom. — Pietro Metastasio
The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live. — Adam Carolla
Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom. — Oliver Goldsmith
Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice. — Jacqueline Novogratz
It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. — Leo Buscaglia
Today's Multiple Choice Thought
There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:
a. the bedroom
b. the nursery
c. the garden — Robert Breault
Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours. — Vera Nazarian
Belief is a choice. Not everyone is going to love Jesus. I'm not asking them to. I'm not asking them to come on the same spectrum as me. No matter where you fall on the faith spectrum, the spiritual can instill a sense of hope in you that's undeniable. The spiritual doesn't ask you to believe any one thing. It just opens you up. — Measha Brueggergosman
In Conclusion
Reading love is a choice quotes can be a transformative experience, providing us with valuable insights about our relationships and our own selves. These quotes teach us that love isn't something that just happens to us; it's a choice we make, a path we consciously decide to walk on. When we understand that falling in love is a choice, we learn to take responsibility for our actions and emotions. This leads to a deeper understanding of what true love and unconditional love in a relationship mean. Moreover, these quotes can foster self-love, reinforcing the idea that happiness, too, is a choice. So, do we have a choice? Absolutely, and every choice we make shapes our journey of love, leading us towards a fulfilling, rewarding life. So, let's choose love, always.
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