Quotes About Choice

anger harms no one more than he who harbors it. That both bitterness and true happiness are choices that we make, not conditions that fall upon us from the hands of fate. That peace is to be found in the acceptance of things that we are unable to change. That friends and family are the blood of life, and that the purpose of existence is caring, commitment.

The darkness was not an absence of light, but an absence of meaning, for meaning arose only from the exercise of free will.

The things we regret most in life are the things we don't do.

A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness. We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness, and misery.

Fate isn't a straight road, I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work. People are doing the Devil's work everywhere you go; there's no avoiding it unless you go live on a mountaintop somewhere, a hundred miles from everyone.

THE WAY AND THE WAY NOT

journeying through the fields of evil is the price we pay for free will

Life offers infinite possible roads. Sometimes your head chooses the route, sometimes your heart. And sometimes, for better or worse, neither head nor heart can resist the stubborn pull of fate.

She also chose snakeskin high-heeled platform shoes with ankle straps.

If someone had killed Hamlet in the first act, a lot more people would've been alive at the end.

People would be forced to confront the daunting fact that the truth they claimed to pursue and cherish was in fact a burden that they most often chose not to carry, that the lies they insisted they despised were instead often preferred to hard facts and cold reality.

Even decent people must occasionally choose between the lesser of two evils.

Ian Stonebridge

In fact, although it isn't profound, there are worse mottoes to live by than "We might as well eat.

Better than a peanut butter and onion sandwich?

The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Because we have free will, our tomorrows are never determined until we make them day by day.

I understand why the world is shapen as it is, that we should have free will and be more than ants, that we must know evil if we're also to know good.

Certain events are lightly sketched on the future and can be erased. Others are woven into the fabric of all that is to come and resist being unraveled.

Once a weapon was drawn, it was more likely to be used, and not always as wisely as you might expect to use it.

he knew human lives were free of the chains of fate except in one regard: It was the human destiny to be free.

But you have to choose happiness.