Quotes About Choice

God wants us to walk but the devil sends a limo.

Everybody's got the right to go to hell in the handcart of their choice.

How easy and wonderful it is to live in happy days and how bitter and accursed it is in miserable days! Why can't people save up the one to soften the pain of the other? Why is there always a chasm between the two? Where were you, what games were you playing when your fate was being decided? Why did you let them chop off your wings, without thinking, just when you needed them most, when you need to fly and not crawl from disaster?

And if you don't like it here, you can go somewhere else, where it's better, no road is closed to you.

I might have wanted another destiny for myself, but others have theirs, and I have mine. And I'm not sorry about it. It's mine.

Avevo iniziato a vedere le cose mettendomi dal suo punto di vista, usando la sua positività, e ho scoperto che c'era effettivamente un'altra via per affrontare quella circostanza. Lì ho imparato che se ci sono due modi di vedere una situazione, è sempre meglio scegliere quello ottimistico.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

or even thrown in jail for sneaking onto a freight train! As you read, you decide what happens next by choosing your own path through this multiple-ending story.

Se non fai una cosa è perché non vuoi farla, non perché qualcosa o qualcuno te lo impedisce!

The moment you choose to settle, you guarantee you'll never achieve your real dream. Choose faith over fear.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate

The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corporations control the seed market, it is not a free market, it is a cartel.

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

La nécessité nous délivre de l'embarras du choix. Necessity delivers us from the difficulty of choice.

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it's not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place. Or, at least not yet again. As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.

Quo fata trahunt, retrahuntque sequamur. (Wherever the fates may lead us, let us follow them.)

But" is always preferable to "however," Except in the rare cases where "however" is preferable to "but," Which

We forget something fundamental as we read: Every sentence could have been otherwise but isn't. We can't see all the decisions that led to the final shape of the sentence. But we can see the residue of those decisions.

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.