Quotes About Choice

The first act of honoring the self is the assertion of consciousness: the choice to think, to be aware, to send the searchlight of consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being. To default on this effort is to default on the self at the most basic level.

The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality. Sin is not original, it is originated--like virtue.

The tragedy of many people's lives is that, given a choice between being "right" and having an opportunity to be happy, they invariably choose being "right." That is the one ultimate satisfaction they allow themselves.

This entails the choice to see, to think, to be aware, to send the light of consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being.

The higher the level of consciousness at which we operate, the more we live by explicit choice and the more naturally does integrity follow as a consequence.

As the life and good fame of yonder man were in your hands there seemed no choice to me, save to be silent in accordance with your behest. Yet it was not without heavy misgivings that I thus bound myself, for, having cast off all duty towards other human beings, there remained a duty towards him

Death was too definite an object to be wished for, or avoided.

confronted them now. When first presented

Pritisnila je na gumb dvigala. Šla bo in kupila letalsko vozovnico. Svoboda, ki jo iš?e, je njena, ne Satakejeva, ne Jajoina, ne Jošijina, in prepri?ana je bila, da mora biti tam nekje zunaj. ?e so se za njo zaprla še ena vrata, nima druge izbire, kot da najde nova in jih odpre. Dvigalo, ki ji je prišlo naproti, je je?alo kot veter. END.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

Ako se neko u vasem drustvu ubije pistoljem clanovi njegove porodice gube pravo na osiguranje. Ako on to ucini cigaretama ne gube pravo. Ako vam lekar pomogne u samoubistvu, to se naziva ubistvom, a ako vam to ucini duvanska kompanija, to se naziva trgovinom.

Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.

You...you lost your faith? No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing. Lev begins to feel himself choking up with an unexpected flood of feeling, all the emotions that had been building up throughout their talk- throughout the weeks- arriving all at once like a sonic boom. I never knew there was a choice.

Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born

Tools are neither demonic nor divine. It's all about who wields them.

if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

Would you rather die, or be unwound?

It was his mistake in thinking that a snake would choose to be anything but a snake.

I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound, says Connor. I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this. He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. We have a right to our lives! The kids go wild. We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies! The cheers reach fever pitch. We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.

Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge? Allie considered this. Meaning? Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads. Or tails, suggested Allie. What are you talking about? said Lief. Life and death.

Time is never of the essence until someone decides that it is.

To choose those who live and those who die would leave me both feared and adored, like emperor-gods of old. No, I decided. Let humankind be the saviors and the silencers. Let them be the heroes. Let them be the monsters.

I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families?but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.

But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.