Nancy Pearcey Quotes

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.

The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

Choice is a signature of our species.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.

The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?

Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.

Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.