Quotes About Choice

To recognize that "I am the one who chooses" and "I am the one who determines the value of an experience for me" is both an invigorating and a frightening realization.

The good life, from the point of view of my experience, is the process of movement in a direction which the human organism selects when it is inwardly free to move in any direction.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.

Once a mind has been set free, it would rather be destroyed than return to captivity.

One place is as good as another, in the valley without exit...

che significa che siamo liberi di prendere delle decisioni, se il nostro comportamento non fa che seguire le leggi della natura?

what does it mean, our being free to make decisions, if our behavior does nothing but follow the predetermined laws of nature?

I chose as my supervisor a professor who allowed me to continue to study what I wanted.

Is there not perhaps a contradiction between our feeling of freedom and the rigor, as we now understand it, with which things operate in the world?

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a heart If it does, the path is good if it doesn't it is of no use.

All paths lead nowhere, follow the path with heart.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't then it is of no use to us.

Hiçbir ?ey temsilinin d???nda vuku bulmaz," diye itiraz etti iki delikanl? ile sözünü esirgemeyen Yahudi bir k?z. "Herkes istedi?i temsili seçme hakk?na sahiptir.

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

All triumphs are made of the same stuff: the right support, the right team, the determination to achieve the goal, lots of really hard work. And all triumphs are much more about choice than they are about chance.

know if I'm ready for that." "You could keep spending nights home with your TV or you could go out with a guy who obviously worships you. Really difficult choice.

You make your own party.

Every morning you have two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.

Por eso me quedo, porque puedo irme.