Quotes About Choice

I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will; it cannot be belabored.

Indeed, the biggest winners in the world are those who answer yes to the question, "Am I living the life I choose?

Every job you take is a gamble that could increase your options or shut them down.

We cannot separate the special importance of the visual apparatus of man from his unique ability to imagine, to make plans, and to do all the other things which are generally included in the catchall phrase free will. What we really mean by free will, of course, is the visualizing of alternatives and making a choice between them. In my view, which not everyone shares, the central problem of human consciousness depends on this ability to imagine.

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

Love child! What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

How do you want to die, Admiral? We are D'Angeline. At the hand of numbers, or dreams?

As often as not, we forge our own chains. And from those, not even Adonai Himself can free us. We must do it ourselves.

I thought about what a priest of Elua had told me about love many years ago, the first time I kept his vigil on the Longest Night. You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose. It was true.

Tell me, my heart, would you rather wed a handsome man or a wealthy one?" Zariya considered the question. "If I had the luxury of choice, I would choose a kind man.

I love you, and I would choose to be with you whether in a slum or a cave or a palace.

It all seemed very unfair. I'd never asked for a destiny

we can but try to do good. And you did. What he's done with it is up to him.

So what? You're no worse off than if you hadn't asked. At least this way you give yourself a fifty-fifty chance

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I'm not going to get married at all,' I said. 'It's too easy to pick the wrong person. I'm going to live all by myself and I'm going to eat all my favourite things every day and stay up as late as I like, and I shall read all day and write stories and draw pictures with no one bothering me or fussing or needing to be looked after.

The story takes up space as a knot in a piece of wood. If the knot is removed, a hole remains. We must ask ourselves, how will this hole that we have opened be filled? The hole, Maisie, is our responsibility.

just because you know right from wrong, it doesn't mean you stay away from the wrong part.

Trouble is, your best ain't always the best for those who want a say in the matter.

When there are many worlds you can choose the one you walk into each day.

I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with. And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.

Everyone must assume their own death, that is to say, the one thing in the world that no one else can either give or take: therein resides freedom and responsibility.

five traits: decision, desire, will, closure, and security.