Quotes About Choice

You've come full circle. Here you are again, with it all to do all over again, and you must decide all over again whether you want to be famous or whether you want to write. And the two things, in spite of all the evidence, have nothing whatever in common.

Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

Just as the birds above our heads circling are singing, knowing that, in what lies before them, the always unknown passage, wind, water, air, the failing light the failing night the blinding sun they must get the journey done. Listen. They have wings and voices are making choices are using what they have. They are aware that, on long journeys, each bears the other, whirring, stirring love occuring in the middle of the terrifying air.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

if you find yourself bogged down in elaborate columns of pros and cons, just randomly pick a decision and observe how you react. If you feel relief, then you probably made the right decision. If, on the other hand, you feel uneasy or tense—a "gnawing" in your stomach—then you probably made the wrong choice.

The challenge becomes not opportunity creation, but opportunity selection.

Most men would rather die, than think. Many do.

Non dovremmo nemmeno escludere la possibilità che la scelta delle pratiche di sussistenza spesso fosse una scelta politica - una decisione sulla propria posizione nei confronti dello stato.

Zygmunt Bauman, "Living Without an Alternative

Experience is a flow from event to consequence, with moral events defined by human choice.

Kogo, the goshawk, fluttered on his wrist and settled herself, watching him. Toranaga smiled at her. I did not choose to be what I am. It is my karma.

But generally there's good in evil people and evil in good people. You must choose the good and get rid of the evil without sacrificing the good. There's no waste in my domains to be cast away lightly.

But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

Earl 'Blue' Archer, the Kalinin Bay VC-3 Avenger pilot who suffered a serious back injury amid the brambles of flak over Kurita's fleet, went home and kept quiet about his infirmity. He soon realized that he had a choice to make: he could take an eighty or ninety percent disability benefit from Uncle Sam and begin a life of inactivity, or he could take three or four aspirin twice a day and continue flying planes in the naval reserve.

It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice—

You've made a wise choice, lad...I won't insult your intelligence with the word 'trust'.

This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.

What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

I choose to be the person that i want to be

She told me that living life as a Prisoner was a waste of life and that freedom, even a second of freedom, was worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

Your body moves always in the present, the dividing line between the past and the future, but your mind is more free. It can think and is in the present. It can remember and at once is in the past. It can imagine and at once is in the future, in its own choice of all the possible futures. Your mind can travel through time. (Eric Frank Russell, 1941)

Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans' status quo bias.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.