Quotes About Choice

Instead of being swept away by that stream we can pause and see that these are just thoughts - and choose whether or not to act on them.

A atenção plena permite-nos quebrar o fluxo de pensamentos que poderiam, caso contrário, levar-nos a ficar prisioneiros da infelicidade, transformando a nossa relação com o próprio pensamento. Em vez de sermos arrastados por esse fluxo, conseguimos parar e ver que isto são apenas pensamentos – e escolher agir ou não de acordo com eles.

And wisdom to know the difference.

No podemos controlar lo que vamos a sentir, pero sí decidir qué hacemos a continuación.

You know, despite all my world-weariness and cynicism, I think I've always believed that there is one person in the universe for whom you are truly meant - and the fact that sometimes there are two or even more people on the earth you can fall in love with really bothers me. It suggests that if you work hard you can be meant for anyone.

It's okay to like jerks. I mean, it'd be better to like a nice guy, but there aren't any.

If you know what I mean it felt reckless, the rain and whatnot, but only if your idea of reckless is sitting at a diner and having whatever you felt like.

Is it really possible to quit, and step out of a car that's taking you someplace terrible?

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

I passed your floor on the way up, and now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again.

You want these back, don't you? You want me out of here so you can come back and take over where you left off. I don't blame you. It's your body and your brain-and your life, even though you weren't able to make much use of it. I don't have the right to take it away from you. Nobody does. Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?...

Who's to say death is better than your darkness?

I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—

Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known—not long ago the adolescent in me thought death could happen only to other people), I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am.

You can't have everything you want in one woman. One more argument for polygamy.

Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.

As the Takers see it, the gods gave man the same choice they gave Achilles: a brief life of glory, or a long, uneventful life in obscurity. And the Takers chose a brief life of glory.

Your sufferings must be borne, for you suffer in the cause of good. See how great we have become! ...Though your groans fill the air, isn't it sweeter to live in our own hands than in the hands of the gods?

You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer.

I'd rather live life with the consequences of my choice than live with the consequences of fear.

You've presented a reality that not everyone has chosen to accept.

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

There comes a time when we all must decide if we want to wait for the storms of life to pass or if we want to simply dance in the rain.

Weather is a great metaphor for life sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain.