Quotes About Personal choices

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

Are you sure there's no way of getting the lad's fancies out of his head? There are so many other things a young manwom can take up nowadays. What about hairdressing? Beard-perms and hair-sets are so fashionable at the moment.

And: there are so many paths we could have traveled—so many other people we could have been. Staying would not have rendered me weak—an inconsequential June Cleaver—just as cheating didn't make me a coldhearted monster. The clean reduction of a woman to any prime number is always a lie, even if some lies are prettier than others.

if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will.

Why, for example—especially knowing the family as I do—I should want to marry your sister is a great mystery to me. But your sister and I have every right to marry if we wish to, and no one has the right to stop us. If she cannot raise me to her level, perhaps I can raise her to mine.

It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently. There can be a stigma for people who don't take the path I did, as though not having surgery means you're not really transitioning. No one should feel as though it's everything or nothing.

My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones.

I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.

I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

I think that for me, personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

I'm not a gambler or a nightclub guy.

I have no idea if I will go for an arranged marriage or love marriage.

I have no problem with animals, I just like people more.

Everyman has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.

People have their reasons for the damnedest things in my experience.

I won't argue. It's different for everyone, isn't it? Love, magick, and how we see and deal. And in each, the choices we make.

But I can't deny my heart: I like to drink, and I like to rock. You think I'm an idiot? Fine. You don't have to come over.

Normal? What's normal? To only do what the masses do? And what is the benefit of that? Where is the problem in adopting a custom that is 'abnormal' if it has no negative effect on the world at large?

Frankl is credited with establishing logotherapy as a psychiatric technique that uses existential analysis to help patients resolve their emotional conflicts. He stimulated many therapists to look beyond patients' past or present problems to help them choose productive futures by making personal choices and taking responsibility for them.