Quotes About Choice

Diana seemed content with her role of wife, too. Colby congratulated himself. He'd chosen well the second time around, even if he had chosen in haste again. He'd learned a lot about Diana in the past few months. She was a mature adult just as he was, and when she made a commitment, she kept it

We all make the best choices we can with the information we have available at the time we have to make them. None of us ever has enough information to be absolutely sure we're making the right choice.

But he knew that was his own fault. He hadn't asked the right question. Water flows in the channel that is provided for it. The wrong question created the wrong channel.

He had made his decision regarding Molly with great care and consideration.

We all have pasts and we all have futures. All we can do is choose to live in one or the other. It doesn't seem to me that there's much point living in the past.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

The old form of voluntary servitude was that of free men using that freedom paradoxically to turn themselves into serfs. The new voluntary servitude is that of men obeying the demand that they be free.

Wer mein Haus betreten will, der trete ein. Wem es hier gefällt, der bleibe. Ich weigere mich, etwas zu planen. Und wenn man mich fragt, was ich aus meinem Haus mitnehmen würde, wenn es brennt, antworte ich: das Feuer.

Si je préfère les chats aux chiens, c'est parce qu'il n'y a pas de chat policier

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Here's what I say - when you don't know or can't know the answer to a question, why not believe the answer you like best? It's as valid as any of the others - and it might be right.

If a woman chose the wrong person, he was always going to be the wrong person: that was all. The most capable therapist in the world wouldn't be able to do much more than negotiate the treaty.

Pick the wrong person and it doesn't matter how much you want to fix your marriage. It won't work.

if you're paying attention, if your eyes and your ears and your mind are open, as they should be open. You can know and then, critically, hold on to that knowledge, even if he loves you (or seems to), even if he chooses you (or seems to), even if he promises to make you happy (which no one, not one person on the planet, can possibly do). And part of her, a big part of her, had obviously wanted to be the one who told them this. Because I am such a competent

Liberty can be obtained, it cannot be regained.

No podía obligarle a quedarse; sólo podía ayudarle a marcharse.

Quanto a noi, ci rifiutiamo di lasciarci squartare tra la tesi e l'antitesi. Concepiamo senza alcuna difficoltà come un uomo, anche se il suo ambiente lo condiziona totalmente, possa essere un centro di indeterminazione irriducibile.

I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to.

People are like dice, you throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing....

There is no reality exception in action.

But if you seek counsel - from a priest, for example - you have selected that priest; and at bottom you already knew, more or less, what he would advise. In other words, to choose an adviser is nevertheless to commit oneself by that choice. (From: Existentialism is a Humanism)

I go out. Why? Well,because I have no reason not to go out either