Quotes About Choice

But the fact is that the human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality.

The real battle for your own soul isn't about falling from a great height; it's about descending, or not, one choice at a time.

Maybe the process of becoming something horrible wasn't about temptation to sin, forbidden delights, and bad impulse control. Maybe it was about choosing to throw your soul into a meat grinder, over and over again. Until what remained couldn't even be seen as a soul any longer. Maybe the real monsters, the big bad monsters, aren't created. They're forged. Hammered. One blow at a time.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.

Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom.

The opportunity to do what is right is available at all times.

Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make.

You are being fashioned into one of two images, either God's or the worlds. Make a choice!

I was feeling right at home all by myself. The woods can be a bit strange. It takes a long time to feel you belong there and then you never again really belong in town. It's a choice made for you by your brain at a moment you don't notice.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

Søren Kierkegaard

Yesterday I got a call from the outside world but I said no in thunder. I was a dog on a short chain and now there's no chain.

There are no true monsters, only some people [...] who with regularity acted like a monster. It's still episodic. [...] It never works when you leave out even a small part of the picture.

I also refused the family tradition of Yale and enrolled instead at Michigan State University and then he knew that he had truly lost me, not that he seemed to care.

The woods can be a bit strange. It takes a long time to feel you belong there and then you never again really belong in town. It's a choice made for you by your brain at a moment you don't notice.

Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men.

Dans la vie,j`ai eu le choix entre l`amour,la drogue et la mort.J`ai choisi les deux premèires et c`est la troisième qui m`a choisi

He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose. He had never realized, somehow, that such blessedness might be his privilege. He was Doc Mc Coy, and Doc Mc Coy was born to the obligation of being one hell of a guy.

Getting a second doctor's opinion is kinda like switching slot machines.

Love is not a feeling; it's a decision. It's not something you experience; it's something you choose to do. It's not an emotion; it's an ability. It's not something that happens to you; it's something you nurture and orchestrate and develop.

You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should.

There is no shame in being the object of a crime. You did not choose to be the object. (111)

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