Quotes About Choice

What happens in the heart, simply happens. But sometimes real love calls us to a higher duty. We have to do what's right, and not always what we desire.

When you have the ability and desire to help someone, the only moral choice is to act.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Long before all these divisions were opened between home and the road, betweens a woman's place and a man's world, humans followed the crops, the seasons, traveling with their families, our companions, animals, our tents. We built campfires and moved from place to place. This way of traveling is still in our cellular memory. Living things have evolved as travelers, Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.

Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

This balance between tribe and individuality, community and uniqueness, was a surprise in a world that makes us think we have to make a choice between them.

But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, "If I'd left, you never would have been born." I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

I think that we have successfully said that rape is not sex, it's violence. But what we have not successfully said is that pornography is not erotica. Porne means female slaves. Eros has an idea of love and mutual pleasure and free choice. I fear that pornography is taking over sex when in fact it's way more about domination.

Now that being on the road was my choice, not my fate, I lost the melancholy feeling of 'everybody has a home but me'. I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of 'either/or', I discovered a whole world of 'and'.

I was more interested in going to sea and the revolution than in staying home as the mother or the wife.

Just because we all have wombs doesn't mean we have to be mothers, just like we all have vocal cords doesn't mean we're all opera singers.

It had taken three murders - Martin Luther King, Jr., and two Kennedys - to leave the country with this choice between Nixon and Hubert Humphrey.

Sometimes you're hungry for one thing and not another.

As the New York primary approached, I certainly wasn't against either candidate, but I still had to decide who to vote for. So I sat down with a yellow pad and made a list of pros and cons for each.

Yet, I doubt he would have chosen such a risky life if he hadn't been fleeing an orderly one.

If I pressed and said, "But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, "If I'd left, you never would have been born." I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead.

Sometimes you're hungry for one thing and not another.

the love of independence and possibilities

I can go on the road—because I can come home. I come home—because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.

Je peux partir parce que j'ai une maison qui m'attend. Je peux rentrer parce que je suis libre de partir. C'est l'alternance qui donne toute sa saveur à chacun de ces modes de vies. C'est à la fois très ancien et très moderne. Nous avons besoin des deux.