Quotes About Choice

Llegada cierta edad, las mujeres tienen que buscar otra clase de poder. El dinero, por ejemplo. O un arma. Llevo la vida que quiero, me digo, y quiero la vida que llevo. Me digo a mí misma: Me lo merecía. Esto es exactamente lo que quería.

She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer.

Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage...You'll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite the apple.

As if the only choice they have left is how they're going to die, and they want to die in a fight.

But God was never about power over us. It was about the power we possessed to either be good and in His graces, or be selfish and wretched in His shadow. So to speak. Hell is being in that shadow. It's not in the next world, but this one, right now, anytime you choose not to do the right thing.

People like the illusion of choice. Gives them comfort in these strange times.

But God was never about power over us. It was about the power we possessed to either be good in His graces, or be selfish and wretched in His shadow. So to speak. Hell is being in that shadow. It's not in the next world, but this one, right now, anytime you choose not to do the right thing. As long as we're still here, not merely surviving but trying to do right by one another, then I believe that the heritage of God's light is still in us.

I can't choose any one thing. Why do I have to live only one life and be resigned to doing one thing?

It's good to realize that. Not everybody is meant to be a mother or a father, and the more of those assholes figure that out, the better. But for some reason, our biological urge to reproduce is given this gross social weight. Oh, are you pregnant? When are you going to have a baby? Are you? Will you? Won't you? What's wrong with you? It's like if you're not a breeder, you're a nobody.

Happiness is active, not passive; it's a decision, not an award someone gives you. Happiness takes adjustment. When something is broken, you adjust that thing with a wrench, a screwdriver, maybe a flamethrower.

Follow the right wall. Right meaning the direction—pick the wall to the right of you and keep following it, and if it dead-ends, you stay on the right and turn around. Ultimately in this way, a maze would stretch out like a line—or was it a circle?—and you would find your way to its end.

If you're fixin' to get yourself a good stallion, don't go lookin' in the donkey corral.

Your problem, my darling daughter, is that you're afraid you're going to miss something. But what you don't realize is that, by not making a decision, you're missing it all.

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want.

Dê uma boa olhada nas suas escolhas antes de culpar metade do mundo pelos seus erros.

There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.

Have you ever asked yourself whether you'd rather fly or be invisible?

Life is about deciding what matters. It's about the fantasy that determines the reality.

It is what you haven't done that will torment you

Yet it had only been two weeks, barely a drop in the bucket of her twenty-seven years on the planet. Was that really enough time to make such a momentous decision as would be asked of her tonight? Yet

predicament bondage before, where the sub had to choose between two difficult, erotically painful outcomes. But the play had always been one-on-one. She'd never been made responsible for inflicting pain on others in order to avoid pain herself.

But it is a very difficult thing to change the future. The slightest turn of phrase…action and the human soul. The future changes direction based on those things.

Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity.