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Quotes About Choice

Soy prisionero con la puerta abierta, con el mundo abierto.
~ Pablo Neruda
Você é livre para fazer suas escolhas, mas é prisioneiro das conseqüências.
~ Pablo Neruda
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
~ Pablo Picasso
You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you." —ARTEN IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE UNIVERSE, BY GARY RENARD In
~ Pam Grout
You can go back time and time again to the shoe store, but it will never sell milk.
~ Pam Grout
Choosing to be happy and saying thank you to whatever circumstances befall you is one of the most radical things you could ever do.
~ Pam Grout
I will never regret not having children. What I regret is that I live in a world where in spite of everything, that decision is still not quite okay.
~ Pam Houston
For a long time I thought the object of the game was identifying the question, love versus freedom, Mandela vs Buthelezi, leave or stay forever ghosted under a thick curtain of oil. Nora said, Maybe a choice isn't the right way to think of it, by which she might have meant, A question loses its power when there is only one answer, as in, yes to Bhutan and Barstow. Yes to chanterelles and portobellos. A temple. Yes. A mosque. Yes. The changeable heart of a child.
~ Pam Houston
Nobody gets to have it all, not even Donald Trump. You will have one thing or another depending on what choice you make. Or you will have both things in limited amounts, and that might turn out to be perfect, just exactly the life you want.
~ Pam Houston
I guess I don't believe you can have it all. I don't believe any of us can. In fact, I believe the very expression having it all is not only a myth but also a symptom of how sick we are in our contemporary culture. Nobody gets to have it all...You will have one thing or another depending on what choice you make. Or you will have both things in limited amounts, and that might turn out to be perfect, just exactly the life you want' (175).
~ Pam Houston
If the means to a well-lived life is to take the road less traveled, first you have to get on the road.
~ Pamela Redmond Satran
And believing in choice meant you supported it whether someone's choice conformed to your personal beliefs or not.
~ Pamela Redmond Satran
If the means to a well-lived life is to take the road less traveled, first you have to get
~ Pamela Redmond Satran
I would rather dip my bread in salt and look at the sun than dip it in butter and look at my feet.
~ Panaït Istrati
Günlük yaÅŸam?m?z? sürdürmemiz için sahip olduÄŸumuz çeÅŸit çeÅŸit duygular?n aras?ndan bir seçim yapmak, bizim için bir üstünlük belirtisi mi yoksa derin bir üzüntü nedeni mi?
~ Panaït Istrati
Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.
~ Paolo Coelho
In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose; now, in young adulthood, she was convinced it was too late to change.
~ Paolo Coelho
Do not do what you want, and then you may do what you like.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. If you have given up hope of ever being happy, cheer up.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Abstente de hacer lo que deseas, y podrás entonces hacer lo que te plazca».
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
God is pulling man and maya is pulling man, and man is free to move toward either.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
If you don't like my words, you are at liberty to leave at any time, Master assured me. I want nothing from you but your own improvement. Stay only if you feel benefited.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
God gave freedom to man, and man has misused that freedom; this is the cause of all suffering.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on Earth can take that happiness from you
~ Paramhansa Yogananda