Quotes About Choice

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

If I am unhappy, it has been of my own making, and that very thing shows that I can be happy if I will.

Where is fate, and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. Why

Regret for things we have done can be tempered by time, it is regret for things we have not done that is inconsolable.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Being able to do exactly as one pleases is the surest way to remain perpetually unpleased.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

So, should we race to see how quickly we can consume the last tuna, swordfish, and grouper? Or race to see what can be done to protect what remains? For now, there is still a choice.

We are going to change the world from this point onward, one way or another. Either from what we do, or what we fail to do.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

Footfalls echo in the memoryDown the passage which we did not takeTowards the door we never openedInto the rose garden.

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened

And indeed there will be timeTo wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing at least we exist.

Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end.

In chess, as in life, your choice will make all the difference.

A coward's gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice."

Just because majority do something doesn't validate it to be the best thing to do

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.