Quotes About Choice

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward, you will wish you had done something different.

Frank or Ernest

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

love is by definition free and if he choose to go when I would have him stay perhaps I'll die a bit but I'd rather so than taste his absent minded kiss and lie uneasy in a masked embrace

You're not caught in a dilemma?" he asked. I looked at my feet. I didn't know what a dilemma was, but it didn't look like I was caught in anything, so I shook my head no.

Eine Hure wird niemals eine Hure, wenn sie nicht dazu gemacht wird.

Sin is the fate prepared by the individual when he disowns himself and makes of himself a mere object. Man does not fall into the sin of his fate, but into the fate of his sin.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving ' and then you do it.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

We find we have little to guide us in our search and must put trust in the only power we have, that natural instinct that propels us toward creation, choice, liberation and change. We must yield to the challenge of becoming fully human and trust in our human processes in the hope that they will lead us there. Out challenge then is clear, to make as much of the illusion as possible a reality. After all, our reality is not more than what was once our illusion.

Only one who risks is free.

We find we have little to guide us in our search and must put trust in the only power we have, that natural instinct that propels us toward creation, choice, liberation and change. We must yield to the challenge of becoming fully human and trust in our human processes in the hope that they will lead us there. Our challenge then is clear, to make as much of the illusion as possible a reality. After all, our reality is no more than what was once our illusion.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

??çi, kuramsal olarak, istedi?ini yapabilen "özgür" bir ki?idir. Oysa gerçekte, i?çinin özgürlü?ü iyice s?n?rl?d?r. ??verenin ileri sürdü?ü ezici ko?ullar? kabul etmek ya da açl??? seçmek aras?nda özgürdür.

FOLK SAYING: "Better to be in Gehenna with a wise man than in Gan Eden [Paradise] with a fool.

PROVERB: "A wise man, looking for a bride, should take an ignoramus along to advise him.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.