"Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe."
— Barbara De Angelis

"One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?"
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

"You get to a point where you have one of two choices. You either put a gun to your head or you pray."
— Willie Aames

""Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness."
— enhanced version of a Joyce Meyer quote

"Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich."
— Spencer W. Kimball

"The difficulty in life is the choice."
— George Moore

"I will do you one last favour, in the name and memory of the figment you have replaced. I will clarify a misapprehension of yours. Circumstances did not conspire against me. I was not led into anything, nor did I fall. I chose my life and my course. I chose to do wrong in the hope that right might come of it. I regret it. I would choose differently now. But the choice was mine. Deny that, falsify it, tinsel it over with pious, pitying justification, and you deny everything I am and every scrap of what little good I have been able to do in my life. Good or bad, give me credit for what I have done. I would rather go honestly to Hell, admitting that I leaped knowingly into error and folly, than enter into the sweetest Heaven men can dream of by whining that I had been pushed."
— Steven Brust (Freedom and Necessity)

"Inaction counted as a choice."
— Dean Koontz, Velocity

"Every single free choice you ever undertake arises out of one of the only two possible thoughts there are; a thought of love or a thought of fear."
— Conversations With God

"Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together."
— Emily Giffin (Love the One You're With)

"I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"Do you love me?" he asked.
I fell silent.
"For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there."
— Sharon Shinn (Summers at Castle Auburn)

"Two people may suffer the same disappointment, one might be saddened, the other understanding.
Two people may receive the same insult, one might be hurt, and the other compassionate.
Two people may have the same disagreement, one might be angered, the other feel love.
How you react to circumstances, people and things, IS A CHOICE, YOUR CHOICE... based on YOUR use of compassion, understanding and love.
"
— Mike Dooley

""if pain must come, may it come quickly. because i have a life to live, and i need to live it in the best possible. if he has to make a choice, may he make it now. then i will either wait for him or forget him. waiting is painful. forgetting is painful. but not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering""
— paulo coelho

"That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time."
— Cameron Dokey (Golden: A Retelling of "Rapunzel")

""I learned to give love and get love unconditionally. You just have to accept people for what they are, and I learned the greatest gift of all. The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices that you make will shape your life forever" "
— A Bronx Tale

"The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote"
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice."
— Ann Patchett (Bel Canto)

"He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing."
— Sherman Alexie (The Toughest Indian in the World)

"...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together."
— Emily Giffin (Love the One You're With)

"Choose your love. Love your choice."
— Thomas S. Monson

"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

"“What does really matter?” I asked
She looked at me as though wondering if she could trust me with some immense secret. Finally she said, “Having someone to love. Being compassionate. Being fully alive every day so that you really see and hear and smell and feel things.”"
— Jonathan Hull (Losing Julia)

"When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it."
— Ian McEwan (Enduring Love)

"People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy."
— James Baldwin (Another Country)

"I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is."
— Winston Groom (Forrest Gump)

"She loved him. It was a pale description of how she felt, but she could find no other words. To watch him, to hear him, to simply be in the same space with him made her heart sing."
— Leona Blair (A World of Difference)

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."
— Bertrand Russell

"'Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.'"
— Alison Croggon (The Riddle: The Second Book of Pellinor)

"Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle to conquer. Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he opens his heart to the partner of his soul and says: 'here it is! the very essence of me! It is yours to nurture or destroy.'"
— David Gemmell

"Not that she didn't love almost every boy she'd ever met, and not that every boy in the world didn't totally love her. It was impossible not to. But she wanted someone to love her and shower her with attention the way only a boy who was completely in love with her could. The rare sort of love. True love. The kind of love she'd never had."
— Cecily von Ziegesar (I Like It Like That)

"’True love is found by stepping off the cliff... Faith and love are bound together inseparably. If you don’t truly believe, you can’t truly love. If you don’t love, you cannot truly believe. Each is required for the other.’"
— Ted Dekker (A Man Called Blessed)

"It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reaon. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No, no! They don't even have to love you! They just have to be there to love! Target for your arrows. Magnetic Pole to drag on your compass needle and stop it spinning and tell you where you're heading and...Someone to soak up all the yearning. That's what I think."
— Geraldine McCaughrean (The White Darkness)

"You've got to learn to laugh — it's the way to true love."
— John Travolta in "Michael"

"Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them."
— Mumia Abu-Jamal (Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience)

"Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself."
— Donna Davis

"True love is rare, so when you find it don't let it go just because of a barrier you can't cross."
— Ray H Wall

"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 & Alex Kendrick, The Love Dare

"When you learn to appreciate everything around you, that is when you have found the true meaning of life. But when you have learned to love another with all your heart, that is when you have finally understood and start to actually fulfill the purpose of your existence."
— Jamine Isabel E. Uy

"In true love, you attain freedom."
— Thich Nhat Hanh (True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart)

"I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him."
— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

"“Love? Love is about an unquenchable hunger, a passion so powerful it cannot be ignored. In the face of love,” he spoke softly, “all resistance is futile. Sex is momentary, ephemeral ecstasy at best without love. No one with a good opinion of themselves would trade sex by itself if they could have the true geld .. love with a worthy lover. It alters lives, and even the barest slice of true love … a moment, an evening, a day’s worth, can become a treasure to be pulled from the memory and ignite those feelings again many years after it has passed. It is the most powerful of all compulsions." Das"
— William C. Samples (Fe Fi FOE Comes)

"Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth."
— Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)

"True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it"
— Alexandre Dumas Père

"I wish I knew how to quit you."
— Annie Proulx (Brokeback Mountain)

"Love is the battlefield, those who want true love has to fight for it. Beyond differences created by humans such as caste, creed, country, religion, race and culture."
— Santosh Kalwar

""True love invades the soul and removes all fear and doubt"."
— Hope D Blackwell

"I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means."
— Christopher Barzak (The Love We Share Without Knowing)

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
— Bertrand Russell

"… true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart. "
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)