by choice
Adverb
Meaning
with intention; in an intentional manner
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The history of free men is never really written by chance - but by choice. Their choice.
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.