Quotes About Choice

It is our responsibility to look for meaning in life, even in the darkest times, and whatever the circumstances we always have a vestige of free will.

The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

What matters is not the features of our character or the drives and instincts per se, but rather the stand we take toward them. And the capacity to take such a stand is what makes us human beings.

U ?oveku se kriju obe mogu?nosti: svinja i svetac. Šta ?e neko ostvariti zavisi od njegovih odluka, a ne od uslova. Viktor Frankl: Zašto se niste ubili

Los que estuvimos en campos de concentración recordamos a los hombres que iban de barracón en barracón consolando a los demás, dándoles el último trozo de pan que les quedaba. Puede que fueran pocos en número, pero ofrecían pruebas suficientes de que al hombre se le puede arrebatar todo salvo una cosa: la última de las libertades humanas -la elección de la actitud personal ante un conjunto de circunstancias- para decidir su propio camino.

Zwischen Reiz und Reaktion liegt ein Raum. In diesem Raum liegt unsere Macht zur Wahl unserer Reaktionen. In unserer Reaktion liegen unsere Entwicklung und unsere Freiheit.

Tudo pode ser tirado de uma pessoa, exceto uma coisa: a liberdade de escolher sua atitude em qualquer circunstância da vida.

The last of the human freedoms [is] to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

To each man shall his own free actions bring both his suffering and his good fortune. Jupiter is impartially king over all alike. The Fates will find the way.

Dextrum Scylla latus, laevum implacata Charybdis obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos sorbet in abruptum fluctus, rursusque sub auras erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda.

We make our destiny by our choice of the gods.

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

I prefer men to cauliflowers

It was some such feeling of completeness perhaps which, ten years ago, standing almost where she stood now, had made her say that she must be in love with the place. Love had a thousand shapes. There might be lovers whose gift it was to choose out the elements of things and place them together and so, giving them a wholeness not theirs in life, make of some scene, or meeting of people (all now gone and separate), one of those globed compacted things over which thought lingers, and love plays.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. 'That's your course, world,' one says, 'mine is this.

This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness. [pause]But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death..

It is the privilege of loneliness; in privacy one may do as one chooses. One might weep if no one saw.

Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

To leave a door shut that might be open is in my eyes some form of blasphemy.

The poet was forced to be passionate or bitter, unless indeed he chose to "hate women," which meant more often than not that he was unattractive to them.

any one who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm.