Quotes About Choice

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is.

Tu dubiti se ci sia lecito di morire senza necessità: io ti domando se ci è lecito di essere infelici. ( Dialogo di Plotino e di Porfirio )

I had decided to tidy up a bit. Actually it hadn't really been a choice. The situation had got out of hand, particularly because of the books. Apart from those on the shelves, there were books everywhere. On the floor, on the tables, on the sofas, in the bathroom, in the kitchen—and let's be honest, not all of them were indispensable.

Watts said that real freedom was not freedom of choice but freedom from choice.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

According to the legend, whenever an agent does anything intelligently, his act is preceded and steered by another internal act of considering a regulative proposition appropriate to his practical problem. But what makes him consider the one maxim which is appropriate rather than any of the thousands which are not?

I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.

Death is the only true ending. Everything else falls, to varying degrees, along a continuum of choice.

This, I came to understand, was what freedom tasted like. It wasn't a heady illusion in the safety of a time-shared bed, seeking the approval of the person whose heart you are breaking. It is being willing to have your own heart broken and not blaming the outcome on anyone. It is being an orphan, and love not being an obligation or prescription, but always a risky, transformative choice.

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come . . . There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. —Milan Kundera

Where you are standing—your spot on the ground amid this vast world—and what you choose to look at from there means absolutely everything.

Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret.

because life is not designed to meet your desires and expectations. Life has its own purpose and its own plan. Life brings you the people it does for many reasons, which you may never understand. Your only choice is whether or not to love who Life brings you.

You choose love over whatever the egoic mind is telling you about life, the past, the future, yourself, someone else, or what you should do. You recognize these messages as coming from the ego, and you choose not to listen to them.

Life has its own purpose and its own plan. Life brings you the people it does for many reasons, which you may never understand. Your only choice is whether or not to love who Life brings you.

If you are not aware of what you believe and not aware that you have a choice about what you believe, then your life will be shaped by those mistaken and limiting beliefs, and you will be a passive recipient of the results of those beliefs rather than a conscious co-creator of your life. In these pages, we will explore ways of moving beyond any distorted perceptions of reality that may have developed as a result of your beliefs to a truer, clearer, perception of reality.

As soon as you see you are ego identified, you are outside of it and you have some choice—to either reidentify with the ego or not.

Don't say yes out of obligation. When you don't feel an inner yes, say no to others' requests for your help. Reserve some of your time and energy for things you love to do.

And while God could control anything and everything, he had given his creation the freedom to choose. God could intervene, but then he'd be no more than a master puppeteer. A puppet couldn't love back. And that was what God asked. His children had to choose whether they'd love him enough to obey or whether they'd go the other way. I had to accept that God gave everyone the same freedom. I

Las mujeres no quieren reproducirse porque hacerlo significa dejar de vivir

A constructed situation is the room with the spider and the moonlight between the branches exactly in the moment when -- in answer to the demon's question: "Do you desire this once more innumerable times more?" -- it is said: "Yes, I do.