Quotes About Choice

Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it.

What are you talking about?' cried Lukashka. 'We must go through the middle gates, of course.

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people—that's in your hands.

You can't understand it; for you men, who are free and make your own choice, it's always clear whom you love. But a girl's in a position of suspense, with all a woman's or maiden's modesty, a girl who sees you men from afar, who takes everything on trust,— a girl may have, and often has, such a feeling that she cannot tell what to say.

The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness.

Once there is no freedom, there is no man

Oblonsky's tendency and opinions were not his by deliberate choice: they came of themselves, just as he did not choose the fashion of his hats or coats but wore those of the current style. Living in a certain social set, and having a desire, such as generally develops with maturity, for some kind of mental activity, he was obliged to hold views, just as he was obliged to have a hat. If he

El secret de la felicitat no és fer sempre el es vol, sinó voler sempre el que es fa

suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

Freedom is the content. Inevitability is the form.

Each man lives for himself, using his freedom to attain his personal aims, and feels with his whole being that he can now do or abstain from doing this or that action; but as soon as he has done it, that action performed at a certain moment in time becomes irrevocable and belongs to history, in which it has not a free but a predestined significance.

there is no condition in which man can be happy and entirely free, so there is no condition in which he need be unhappy and lack freedom.

Que ellos vivan como quieran y yo viviré también como me plazca. No puedo ser sino como soy. No es eso lo que quiero, no, no es eso...

The manner of life you have chosen is reflected, I suppose, in your ideas

It is impossible to imagine to oneself a man who has no freedom otherwise as deprived of life

Quos vult perdere dementat.

Tako ?ine rijetki snažni i dosljedni ljudi. Shvativši svu glupost šale kojoj su oni predmet i shvativši da su blaga umrlih ve?a od blaga živih te da je najbolje od svega ne postojati, tako i ?ine te smjesta završavaju s tom glupom šalom kojim god sredstvom: om?a oko vrata, voda, nož kojim probijaju srce, vlakovi na željezni?kim prugama.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Between the thinking and the doing of a deed, there was a line to be crossed.

cult? When I was declining the commissariat of home

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me. When hatred with it's package comes, you forbid delivery.

We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.

probability is the very guide of life