Quotes About Choices

Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives there. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.

Everybody got stones in their passway. You got to step over them or walk around them. You picking them up and carrying them with you. All you got to do is set them down by the side of the road. You ain't got to carry them with you.

It was a salad bar of phobias

Freedom was what we had. Nobody told us when to go to bed. Nobody told us to do our homework. Nobody told us we couldn't drink two six-packs of Budweiser and then throw up in the Maytag. So why did we feel so trapped? Why did I feel like I had no options in my life when it seemed that options were the only thing I DID have?

If you don't like smoking don't even bother getting sober, just stay drunk.

Serenity comes from the ability to say "Yes" to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say "No" to the wrong choices made by others.

While Haw still had a great supply of Cheese, he often went out into the Maze and explored new areas to stay in touch with what was happening around him. He knew it was safer to be aware of his real choices than to isolate himself in his comfort zone.

There are no answers, only choices.

The hard, true thing about our deepest fears is that what happens is completely out of our control. Life is primarily out of our control. People are out of our control, and certainly their choices are out of our control. There is only one person we can ultimately choose life over fear for. Ourselves.

Sessant'anni prima aveva più speranze, ma dormiva in un letto gelato. Cosa scegliere tra i sogni e il termosifone?

La madre di Hank beve perchè ha un cancro al fegato, oppure ha un cancro al fegato perchè beve.

What lies ahead is revealed to us through our being confronted with possibilities. Our possibilities, however, are not unconditional and infinite but are limited by the structure of our actual existence.

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aunque no tengamos el poder de elegir de donde venimos,todavía podemos elegir a donde vamos desde ahí.Todavía podemos hacer cosas.Y podemos intentar sentirnos bien con ellas.

You are part of an infinite family. The people who have been through terrible things and survived them. If you are reading these words. you WON today. You are here. You are alive. You have options. You can wait out a bad situation. Move on. Fight Back. Get out. Break Up. Call. Ask her (or him) out. Write that book. Write that song. Listen to the music. Take the drive. Take the chance. And Live. Whatever strategy you choose, you WIN.

I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't we have the power to choose where we come from, we can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

You are part of an infinite family. The people who have been through terrible things and survived them. If you are reading these words. you WON today. You are here. You are alive. You have options. You an wait out a bad situation. Move on. Fight Back. Get out. Break Up. Call. Ask her (or him) out. Write that book. Write that song. Listen to the music. Take the drive. Take the chance. And Live. Whatever strategy you choose, you WIN.

Así que supongo que somos quienes somos por un montón de razones. Y quizá nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas. Pero aunque no tengamos el poder de elegir de donde venimos, todavía podemos elegir adónde vamos desde ahí. Todavía podemos hacer cosas. Y podemos intentar sentirnos bien con ellas.- Charlie.

guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

We are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief. And you so intelligent! Excuse me? said tom Knowing those things are going to kill you she said and still you do it. How differently I might behave Tom said, if immortality were an option

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