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Quotes About Choice

Try to be good, you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the nice good people as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.
~ Paulo Coelho
What's the world's greatest lie? the boy asked, completely surprised. It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
~ Paulo Coelho
Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.
~ Paulo Coelho
ALWAYS chose the road less taken.
~ Paulo Coelho
The truth is that we don't want to be saved by in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion. It isn't like that with love - it arrives, moves in, and starts directing everything.
~ Paulo Coelho
As though everything truly had to be faced without fear, as a mere fact of life - we don't choose the things that happen to us, but we can choose how we react to them.
~ Paulo Coelho
Don't let other's say That road is better or That route is easier. The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.
~ Paulo Coelho
When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.
~ Paulo Coelho
Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny.
~ Paulo Coelho
You don't choose your life; it chooses you. There's no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on. We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.
~ Paulo Coelho
We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.
~ Paulo Coelho
The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.
~ Paulo Coelho
If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...
~ Paulo Coelho
Nous ne choisissons pas nos vies, mais nous décidons quoi faire des joies et des tristesses que nous recevons.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.
~ Paulo Coelho
Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision
~ Paulo Coelho
The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters.
~ Paulo Coelho
It isn't love (or is it?), but that doesn't matter. My love belongs to me and I'm free to offer it to whomever I choose, even if it's unrequited. Of course, it would be great if it were requited, but if not, who cares.
~ Paulo Coelho
She took the pills from him, placed them in her mouth and drank the entire bottle of water. Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world. Just like her at that moment.
~ Paulo Coelho
The Warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment and sometimes, with just a touch of madness
~ Paulo Coelho
Dreaming isn't as simple as it seems. On the contrary, it can be quite dangerous. When we dream, we put powerful engines in motion and can no longer hide the true meaning of our life from ourselves. When we dream, we also make a choice of what price to pay." Now. The longer I take, the more suffering I'll cause us both.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you don't want to believe me, you don't have to do anything about it.
~ Paulo Coelho
When I experienced humiliation and yet kept walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny.
~ Paulo Coelho
Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy!
~ Paulo Coelho