Quotes About Choice

Better your own road to hell than another's road to heaven

It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

All is bad that is imposed from without,' said Lizalor.

La palabra «libertad» no tiene sentido cuando se aplica a un robot. Sólo un ser humano puede ser libre.

era RG-32 la elección lógica; de hecho, la única. No fue difícil explicarle de algún modo lo que necesitábamos. Archie (era costumbre llamar a un robot por alguna perversión vulgar de su número de serie)

What I have done is to choose between the death of my body and the death of my aspirations and desires. To have let my body live at the cost of the greater death - That is the true violation of the Third Law. Not this. As a robot I might live forever, yes. But I tell you that I would rather die as a man than live eternally as a robot.

I never thought that, in the sense of believing it. It is merely an alternative to be considered.

An atom blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

Could a man really know what was best for him? How easily men were deluded by a word, a smile, a gesture.

A lion attacks a herd of zebras and kills one. The frightened zebras run for a while and then they stop and start to graze again. Do they have a choice?

Somewhere I had had a trace of faith in free will, but this morning I felt sure that man possessed as much choice as the clockwork of my wristwatch or the fly that stopped on the edge of my saucer. The same powers were driving Hitler, Stalin, the Pope, the Rabbi of Gur, a molecule in the center of the earth, and a galaxy billions of lightyears distant from the Milky Way. Blind powers? Seeing powers? It did not matter any more. We were fated to play our little games and to be crushed.

Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.

Cada uno escoge el tono para contar su propia historia; quisiera optar por la claridad durable de una impresión en platino, pero nada en mi destino posee esa luminosa cualidad. Vivo entre difusos matices, velados misterios, incertidumbres; el tono para contar mi vida se ajusta más al de un retrato en sepia...

Going around in a sulk will get you nowhere. Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.

El dolor es inevitable, pero el sufrimiento es optativo.»

Allí donde se cruzan o bifurcan los caminos debemos decidir la dirección que vamos a tomar. Esa decisión puede determinar el curso del resto de nuestra vida.

If I have a perfect lover waiting for me in California, why would I want an imperfect husband?" I argued. "Lovers don't last; a husband is a captive prey," she replied.

The reality is that everyone is responsible for their own life. We're dealt certain cards at birth, and we play our hand; some of us lose, but others may play skillfully from the same bad hand and triumph. Our cards determine who we are: age, gender, race, family, nationality, etc., and we can't change them, only play them to the best of our abilities. The game is marked by challenges and chances, strategizing and cheating.

The path to addiction is straight and well paved;

Comprendió que se estaba muriendo en vida porque para él la libertad era más importante que el amor.

cada cual es libre de narrar su vida como mejor le plazca.

Eso de andar enfurruñado no sirve para nada. El dolor es inevitable, pero el sufrimiento es optativo

cada uno es responsable de su propia vida. Nacemos con ciertas cartas del naipe, y con ellas jugamos nuestro juego; a algunos les tocan malas cartas y lo pierden todo, pero otros juegan magistralmente con esas mismas cartas y triunfan. El naipe determina quiénes somos: edad, género, raza, familia, nacionalidad, etcétera, y no lo podemos cambiar, sólo podemos usarlo lo mejor posible.

pero si me dan a elegir prefiero los dones de varias brujas buenas que conozco: propósito, compasión y buen humor.