Quotes About Choice

History is a card table full of illusions, and we must sort through and pick the ones we wish to believe.

He turned. "She would never marry for wordly advantage." "Yet when she experiences the consequence she gains in such a marriage, she will feel compensated for giving up her freedom!" "Her freedom!" "I think her much at liberty.

Your vagina is not a democracy. No one else gets a vote on what you do with it.

Consent is a downward motion, I think - a leap or a fall - and whether they'll admit it or not, even the most decisive people can find themselves unable to tell whether or not their consent was freely given. That inability to discover whether you jumped or were pushed brings about a deadened gaze and a downfall all its own

What I mean to say is that a whole lot of technically impossible things are always trying to happen to us, appear to us, talk to us, show us pictures, or just say hi, and you can't pay attention to all of it, so I just pick the nearest technically impossible thing and I let it happen.

The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Chapter 12 title)

The night was very stark, alternate streams of town cars and chequered taxicabs, blaring horns busily staking claims—here is the road and here is the sidewalk. But the road looked so much livelier, what if I tried the road?

It is a veiling of alternatives, a way of making sure you don't reject the choice Mother's made for you. No matter what, you will not starve. She has a hunch that over the years, usage of this recipe has always fallen on the shadow side of things.

Life is also meaningful without being married', she had once told her mother, and marrying merely for the sake of it was, in her view, 'one of the greatest mistakes a woman can make

I now have to choose between son and husband. But I have made my decision and I have to be strong. I must leave my boy and share my life – or my death – with my husband.17

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

it's a free country, a woman can drink-garden if she wants to…

They don't choose a profession based on how much they're going to earn. They choose it based on what interests them. Education is free so anyone can train in whatever they want. You know you're going to get taxed a lot anyway, so you may as well just focus on doing what you love, rather than what's going to land you a massive salary.

Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God? You will accept only whom you invite.

Santo hermano mío, piensa en esto por un momento: el mundo que ves no hace nada. 2 No tiene efectos. 3 No es otra cosa que la representación de tus pensamientos. 4 Y será completamente distinto cuando elijas cambiar de parecer y decidas que lo que realmente deseas es el júbilo de Dios.

volvemos nuevamente a optar por la única alternativa que jamás se puede elegir, ya que sólo elegimos entre las ilusiones y la verdad, entre el dolor y el júbilo, entre el Cielo y el infierno. 2 Que la gratitud hacia nuestro Maestro invada nuestros corazones, pues somos libres de elegir nuestro júbilo en vez de dolor, nuestra santidad en vez de pecado, la paz de Dios en vez de conflicto y la luz del Cielo en lugar de las tinieblas del mundo.

is that you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice.

academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.

A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.

We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.

We chose which houses we'll buy if we're born rich next time.

I'm going to make the best choice I can and if that turns out not to be perfect, I'll keep my eye on it, analyze it, and modify it as I go.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

What makes hope such an intense pleasure is the fact that the future, which we dispose of to our liking, appears to us at the same time under a multitude of forms, equally attractive and equally possible. Even if the most coveted of these becomes realized, it will be necessary to give up the others, and we shall have lost a great deal.