Quotes About Choice

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

Because a woman can live in one of two houses--- fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time.

Since different explanations, symbolism, and practices benefit different people, the existence of a variety of spiritual paths enables each person to choose what suits him or her best.

the mind is a dependent arising, which means that it exists in dependence upon causes and conditions, our mind can be transformed in any way we choose;

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

There's an alternate universe where I never left

If you have the opportunity to make a moment meaningful, why not take it?

There's an alternate universe where I never left, he thought.

But she'd never wanted kids. Books were her kids.

You burst into my solitude, demanding to be seen. You were overwhelming. Just wild and weird and brilliant, and I never had a choice. I liked everything about you. Even the scary parts. I wanted to drown in your fucking bathwater.

To his credit, he knew this was a terrible idea. To his discredit, he was doing it anyway.

It would be so nice to have a real choice, fumed Gyuri. It was like Hungary being between Germany and the Soviet Union. What sort of choice was that? Which language would you like your firing squad to speak?

This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen -­ that is what makes the crucial difference.

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.

Dear Trixie, Will you come to Memphis with me? A) Yes B) No C) I'd go anywhere with you because you fuck like a goddamn fire hose. D) You're an asshole and I never want to see you again. Circle ONLY ONE and give it back to me when you're done eating. Love, J

Everyone is always one decision away from a completely different life.

Happiness as a consequence of choice.

Choice betrays character," I said. "That's not true." Loring moved his finger along the sheet as if writing his name in cursive. "Eliza, you can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions.

The thing is, Harp, everyone is always one decision away from a completely different life.

it. I likened it to the intimate version of Doug's Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you what you are theory. This was: Tell me who you fuck and I'll tell you what you are. Spiritual duplicity. "Choice betrays character," I said. "That's not true.

All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.

It's sad knowing that after something happens, every option to change the past is gone.

If you don't decide where you're going, life will decide for you.