Quotes About Choice

A pesar de que poseemos el libre albedrío, el destino absoluto es inmutable. Lo que se supone que debe ocurrir siempre ocurre, de una manera u otra.

Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo.

What are you going to do?" He stared at her for a long moment. "Maybe I'm finally going to be an angel tonight.

Sometimes in life, from out of the myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right—no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.

Right or wrong, she made the choices in her life. No one else did.

Luck is like a cat." Susan wagged her forefinger at him, as if she were correcting a child who should know better. "The more you go after it, the more it eludes you. You can chase what doesn't want you, but you only catch what chooses to be in your palm.

Man, so many times in life you didn't get to pick your path because the way you went was decided for you.

Reality is like a coin. It has a front and a back, and you can only see one side at a time.

In the midst of chaos and death, a new family had been forged. One that as chosen as opposed to an accident of biology—and for that reason, more abiding and enduring.

Jane studied him for the longest time. "What you did or didn't do doesn't matter to me. Because as far as I'm concerned, you're a free male as of right now.

La vida es lo que tú decides que sea; independientemente de dónde te coloca el destino, la lógica y el libre albedrío significan que cada persona puede hacer lo que quiera con su vida.

even Chosen had the right to choose

Are you sure you want to leave?

I think you can do whatever you want to with me.

And to live even a few seconds longer, [...] was infinitely better than to die a moment earlier

Eckhart is saying that once we become empty of all the dross within, God the Mystery can do nothing but rush in to fill the vacuum of our absence. It is up to each one of us to choose between suffocating in the vortex of the limited, knowable self, or instead to cut the cords which bind, and let ourselves drift out into, and be, the vast, incomprehensible sea of Being itself.

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

They build their own Hells.

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

I realised either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.