Quotes About Choice

Le preguntaron a Abboud of Omdurman: "¿Qué es mejor, ser joven o ser viejo?" Él dijo: "Ser viejo es tener menos tiempo ante ti y más errores detrás. Dejo a tu elección si esto es mejor que lo contrario.

Take the straight path, even if it is long: marry no widow, even if she is a houri.

Toma el sendero recto, aunque sea largo; no te cases con viuda alguna, aunque sea una hurí.

Nadie debería decir: "Yo puedo confiar" o "Yo no puedo confiar" hasta que sea dueño de la opción de confiar o no confiar.

La elección y seguimiento de un guía espiritual es el deber más importante de un Sufi.

La palabra "elección" es un fraude mientras la gente elija sólo lo que le han enseñado a elegir.

Más vale prevenir que curar" es una observación valiosa únicamente cuando esas son las alternativas reales.

Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?' está muy bien. Pero qué hay con '¿De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?

Nessuno dovrebbe dire: "Posso fidarmi" o "Non posso fidarmi", finché è padrone dell'opzione di fidarsi o non fidarsi.

Cuando la fortuna llama, abre la puerta", dicen. Pero, ¿por qué mantienes la puerta cerrada y obligas a la fortuna a que llame?

Un lema de la raza humana Dime qué debo hacer; pero tiene que ser lo que quiero que me digas.

Si insistes en comprar mala comida, debes estar preparado para que no te apetezca comerla.

Se insisti a comprare cibo scadente, devi essere pronto a disgustarlo.

If you insist on buying poor food, you must be prepared to dislike it at the serving.

Try always to do what you WISH, and you will often sacrifice what you CAN do.

It is very important what not to do.

En el pragmatismo 'el hacer determina el ser', el carácter depende de la acción, nos formamos conforme avanzamos, gracias a nuestras propias elecciones.

Dar, uite, eu, dintre toate na?iunile, aleg imagi-na?iunea.

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.

I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

Ultimately, it isn't your knowledge that makes the choice: it is your values and your will to be faithful to your values.

The choice is to live a spiritual life; to live a bigger life; to live a life of service to Earth and the whole; it's choosing every day and every hour to live by your true nature at all levels of being rather than live as an individual person only on the material dimension of being.

Because everybody has a conscience, whether or not we can be great beings is not determined merely by its presence in us . Instead, it is determined by the choice to acknowledge its presence and follow its lead