Quotes About Choices

I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

I may have overmothered you and screwed you up in ways large and small, but I think it's time you took some measure of responsibility for where you choose to put your own penis.

You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

The philosophical study of morality—of right and wrong—is ethics. Such study can render us more sophisticated in our choices. Even older and deeper than ethics, however, is religion. Religion concerns itself not with (mere) right and wrong but with good and evil themselves—with the archetypes of right and wrong.

Don't cast pearls before swine, as the old saying goes. And you might think that's harsh. But training your child not to sleep, and rewarding him with the antics of a creepy puppet? That's harsh too. You pick your poison, and I'll pick mine.

Jordan B. Peterson

Ir a lo fácil o decir la verdad no son solamente dos opciones distintas. Son dos caminos diferentes que atraviesan la vida. Son dos formas totalmente distintas de existir.

load, and enjoy the consequences? What should I be doing, when I have some freedom, to improve my health, expand my knowledge, and strengthen my body?

Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.

La vita es fácil, Marga. Nosotros somos los que la complicamos.

Los nombres terminan conformando a las personas y quien deja escapar el suyo también abraza otro destino.

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

To hear these defenders of democracy talk, one would think that the people deliberate like a committee of wise men, whereas in truth judicial murders, foolhardy undertakings, wild choices, and above all foolish and disastrous wars are eminently the prerogatives of this form of government." Study on Sovereignty.

When everything's coming your way, maybe you're driving in the wrong lane

Okay, okay," I said. I should have known better than to talk comic books with Gabe. "What I'm trying to tell you is, the right thing isn't always the easy thing." "Do I get a cookie with that fortune?" "You might want to watch the way you talk to your elders," I said sternly. "Yeah, right," he said, and he smiled, and I smiled, too.

Life is like that, don't you think? Mostly bad choices. All you can do is keep your balance between them.

Humanistic therapies (existential, Gestalt, and client-centered) help people make rational choices and realize their potential in life while showing care and concern for others.7 Behavior therapy assumes that many problems are due to learning and uses principles of Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning to change maladaptive behaviors.

That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

young. Don't decide on your future yet. Your paws will walk wherever they must go.

You cannot live with a paw in each world.

Death is the end of time, of individual time at least, and the switching to an eternal instant where differences no longer hold, choices no longer need to be made, and before and after are no longer relevant.