Quotes About Personal choices

Then she calls me and she's crying and we talk for a while about her marriage and while I am sad that my friend is sad, it makes me happier than ever that I've never been married and never will be, because marriage sounds like a goddamn job, and why would I want another one of those?

relationships you choose to make are far more important than the ones that are forced on you. She's always saying 'you have to love your family, but you don't have to like them, or want to spend time with them.

and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things, too; and without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to continue long. The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints. Prudence would dictate this in the case of separate, insulated, private men. But liberty, when men act

He'd lived so much of his life for sexual love, which was a filthy thing, really, all that saliva and semen and anal smears, filthy! Much better to live alone and watch TV in bed or talk to Pierre-Georges as he was in his bed and watching the same movie. Both of them spotlessly clean.

There's an old Cherokee tale in which a man tells his grandson, "There are two wolves fighting within me. One of them is angry and hateful, the other is generous and compassionate." When the boy asks, "Which one will win, Grandpa?" the old man answers, "The one I feed.

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;But ev'ry woman is at heart a rake.

A lot of times in life, it's personal choices that you're making, actively, and then there's a myriad of forces and circumstances that are out of our control. And without even realizing it, you're riding a wave of events that you have no control of.

My father was not really pleased when I told him of my choice to train as an actress, when he was with us in this dimension.

What's personally sustainable is globally sustainable.

We're all diminished and restricted by sweeping statements defining boy and girl, our expectations and disappointments with ourselves, the way we look, what we enjoy, and the choices we make.

As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

voices or cell phone—choose your schizophrenia.

THE THING TO UNDERSTAND about your father," Lincoln's mother had once explained when he was in high school, "is that you always have a choice. You can do things his way, or you can wish you had.

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Friendship is a choice. more to the point, it is a series of ongoing choices, with consequences for each person.

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

The manner in which a man chooses to gamble indicates his character or his lack of it.

But on one occasion he was lost for words. 'If it's all as bad as you describe,' asked an inconspicuous young man at the end of one of the lectures, 'then why did you choose to become a Gypsy?' His image of Gypsies had marked them as a mere lifestyle, a fashion, a brand.

It doesn't matter what we choose. It simply matters what we are.

Pero los sueños, que no siempre son piadosos ni inofensivos, tienen la costumbre de seguir su propio camino y elegir a sus soñantes.

If it was true that all paths in our World led to only one place, then why not fill whatever path you chose with the best things you could find?

Why am I choosing to be with these people?" Consciously or unconsciously, you may be choosing to hold yourself back—to be less than you are capable of becoming. By the way, I think