Quotes About Choices

I think there is no perfect way to live

should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness were choices that required respect:

it should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness

For Aquinas as for Aristotle, human freedom boils down to the power to make choices. In the end, the morality of our actions must always be judged by the active will and the intentions behind them. It also implies the freedom to choose good over evil and the mental capacity to know the one from the other (which is why dogs and infants can't commit mortal sins).

Aristotle's theory of the mean seems simple-minded; or to quote Bertrand Russell again, common sense pedantically expressed. However, if we change the word mean to proportion, we get closer to what Aristotle must have meant—and large parts of his Ethics as well as his Politics make more sense. The mean represents not so much a literal middle point as striking a balance between conflicting impulses and choices, and seeing our way through to the other side.

Je moet er toch niet bij nadenken hoeveel afslagen een mens op zijn pad misloopt omdat hij eerder naar zijn twijfels luistert dan naar zijn impuls.

Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Per sempre, voleva aggiungere Fridolin, ma prima ancora che pronunciasse quelle parole, lei gli pose un dito sulle labbra e sussurrò come fra sé: « Non si può ipotecare il futuro »

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

the grim looks on their faces that they, too, didn't like leaving a battle unfought. I can feel your sadness, Brax sent the thought to me. It is understandable. But that is the unforgiving logic of war. Hard choices have to be made. I know, I sent back. The logic doesn't make the choice any easier. Pray choices like that never become easy.

Pues eso… Todos hicieron bien y mal, y eso mero es la vida.

vida. A esta edad hay más historias por escribir que tiempo para ocuparse de ellas. Elegir una implica dejar morir otras. Por eso es necesario escoger con cuidado. Equivocarse lo justo.

Renouncing life's years is renouncing own life itself.

The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

We were the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world, and with more diets to keep us from eating it.

After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

And I know you hear their voices Calling from above And I know they may seem real These signals of love But our life's made up of choices Some without appeal They took for granted your soul And it's ours now to steal

Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.

The beaten time can't back but try to make it more valuable than money