Quotes About Choices

Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating.

hayat bir olma sürecidir, içinden geçmemiz gereken süreçlerin bir kombinasyonudur. insanlar?n burada baÅŸar?s?z olduklar? nokta; bir durum, kendilerine bir hal seçip orada kalmak istemeleridir. bu bir nevi ölümdür.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

And if I live badly, whilst I'm waiting to decide how to live?

The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

Clark always says that you can be thin or you can be happy, and, Arthur, I have already tried thin.

How often in life do people make that awful sacrifice, that murder of possibilities?

We are continually being nudged by our devices toward a set of choices. The question is whether those choices are leading us to the life we actually want. I want a life of conversation and friendship, not distraction and entertainment; but every day, many times a day, I'm nudged in the wrong direction. One key part of the art of living faithfully with technology is setting up better nudges for ourselves.

Everyday, there are choices to make and sometimes you make a selfish one.

She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want to be like this.

It was so hard to live the right kind of life, even if you knew what it was.

They hadn't quite considered that by trusting one part of your life, you could undermine all the others. By siding with an early version of yourself, preemptively, you would doubt all future selves that conflicted with it.

Sure. Waffles are fine. How come you didn't ask me what I wanted?" "I'm asking you now." "They're fine," Janine said again. Sighing, she turned back to the computer. I stuck my tongue out at her and ran downstairs. "Waffles are fine!" I told Mimi.

That's what happens when your parents want you to be a physicist.)

Tofu and sprouts just taste better to me than potato chips and cupcakes.

Choices, efforts, intentions, and reasoning influence our behavior—but they are themselves part of a chain of causes that precede conscious awareness and over which we exert no ultimate control.

We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

Mort [Abramowitz] was the first person I came to know well who had helped to make foreign policy at such rarified levels, and over time he would drill into me a simple truth: governments can either do harm or do good. What we do, he would say, depends on one thing: the people. Institutions, big and small, were made up of people. People had values, and people made choices.

I just don't see why having these powers makes it necessary for all of us to become politicians, warriors, social workers, whatever. We would have tried it before if we really wanted to do it. None of us chose to spend our lives helping people before we got our powers - why should we do it now? Because comics say we should?

We're only given one life, and it's the one we live, she had thought; how painful now, to realize that wasn't true, that you would have different lives, depending on how brave you were, and how ready.

The motivating source of your energy is your underlying intention. It's the motivation behind your choices, not the choices themselves, that create the resonant frequencies you project. No matter what the nature of the decision is, it's actually the intention behind it that permeates your energetic field.

people, who "dig their grave with their teeth.

I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.