Quotes About Choice

It always comes down to just two choices. "Live or die, But I will not die without fighting for a life I am not yet done living.

Your little choices good or bad, is up to you.

Today can be the best time of your life or the worst time of your life. The choice is yours.

Everyone has freewill, but few know how to use it wisely.

I believe that life always has a way of surprising you, for better or for worse, And that you always have a choice as to how the story ends...

It's your life, do what matters most to you, do what makes you feel alive and happy. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours.

To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Today... You're on your own you know what to decide and where to go...

Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. "If you make the "wrong" decision, your life will change just as much as if you made the "right" one.

Our ego consciousness — namely, who we think we are, or what we believe real — is at best a thin wafer floating on an iridescent sea. In any moment, we view the world through a distorting lens and make choices based on what the lens allows us to see, not what lies outside its frame.

Thus we are forced into a difficult choice: anxiety or depression. If we move forward, as our soul insists, we may be flooded with anxiety. If we do not move forward, we will suffer the depression, the pressing down of the soul's purpose. In such a difficult choice one must choose anxiety, for anxiety is at least the path of personal growth; depression is a stagnation and defeat of life.

How scary it might prove to conclude that I am essentially alone in this summons to personal consciousness, that I cannot continue to blame others for what has happened to me, that I am really out there on that tightrope over the abyss, making choices every day, and that I am truly, irrevocably responsible for my life. That I would have to grow up, stand naked before this immense brutal universe, and step in to the largeness of this journey, my journey.

third choice was to strike off toward some new projection—a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to drift into some unconscious "self-treatment plan" such as an addiction or an affair.

Of each critical juncture of choice, one may usefully ask, "Does this path enlarge or diminish me?" Usually, we know the answer to the question. We know it intuitively, instinctively, in the gut. Choosing the path that enlarges is always going to mean choosing the path of individuation. The gods want us to grow up, to step up to that high calling that each soul carries as its destiny.

This archetypal drama is renewed every day, in every generation, in every institution, and in every decisive moment of personal life. Faced with such a choice, choose anxiety and ambiguity, for they are developmental, always, while depression is regressive. Anxiety is an elixir, and depression a sedative. The former keeps us on the edge of our life, and the latter in the sleep of childhood.

was her life as lived in fact her authentic journey, or was she driven by complexes so powerful as to render her incapable of choosing anything else?

Yet it is clear that we cannot choose not to choose, for not choosing is a choice from which consequences flow, and the inner split between soul and world widens.

Thus we are forced into a difficult choice—anxiety and depression. If we move forward, as our soul insists, we ... In such difficult choice one must choose anxiety, for anxiety at least is a path of potential growth; depression is a stagnation and defeat of life.

Every man has a right to kill himself.

Will ye, ay or nay?

I have often thought since on looking back over that strange time that it was that small act, trivial in itself, that striking of the match, that determined the whole aftercourse of both our lives

Tenía la costumbre de tratar los problemas morales como el carnicero a la carne, y en aquel caso había tomado la decisión

She ate the apple and gave it also to Adam who had not the moral courage to resist her.

Some day we shall have to choose between England and Europe.