Quotes About Choice

Given a choice of order or justice, he often said, paraphrasing Goethe, he would choose order. He had seen too clearly the consequences of disorder.

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

My heart says yes, but my reason says no.

When it is founded on decision, love is no longer an unreliably moving passion, but the fulfillment to which alone real Being reveals itself.

had a girlfriend named Lana who told me she loved me but said that her impression of life was that people should live alone, answerable to no one. This, she said, made love a true choice and not a duty that inevitably transmogrified into spite.

It's like a door open at the side of the house and this cool breeze is blowing in over the back of my neck. The breeze is Death whispering and that door is open for me to go through anytime I want. And I want to go through. I want the confusion to stop--no, not only confusion but pain too.

Il Diavolo è l'uomo più onesto a camminare su questa Terra, aveva detto Coydog. Ti offre il suo tesoro e ti prende l'anima. Lo chiamano il Principe dei Bugiardi, ma non è diverso da un barista: paghi il tuo bel nichelino e ti bevi il veleno che hai scelto.

existentialist

I inhaled deeply, feeling of two minds about the benefits and detriments of smoking. On one hand, tobacco robbed me of my wind, but on the other, it gave me something to do while the devil was tempting me!

I had a girlfriend named Lana who told me she loved me but said that her impression of life was that people should live alone, answerable to no one. This, she said, made love a true choice and not a duty that inevitably transmogrified into spite.

discontinuity also allows us to choose the best camera angle for each emotion and story point, which we can edit together for a cumulatively greater impact.

The real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its virginity.

And see ye not that braid braid road That lies across that lily leven? That is the path of wickedness Though some call it the road to heaven

Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?

the future is a product, and you only get to vote with your money now

If man's soul wills to obey God, it will allow the spirit to rule over the man as ordered by God. The soul, if it chooses, also can suppress the spirit and take some other delight as lord of the man.

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind. Though the Christian may not feel like obeying God

You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

Love is a word that has as many definitions as there are people to define it. Try this one on for size. The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have.

This road will be new because you will see a given emotion as a choice rather than a condition of life.