Quotes About Choice

in this world of free will, fate is amorphous.

Wealth had not corrupted him. What he'd chosen to do with his wealth corrupted him. First he insulated himself from ordinary human experience, and then deemed himself superior to the masses, excused himself from all constraints not only of morality but also of tradition, and subsequently felt justified in casting off his conscience as a worthless artifact of primitive and superstitious minds. He had made of himself a malignancy in the human community.

freedom can't exist without the choice between right and wrong.

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers

When you are internally driven by not wanting to be something, you often become the opposite. This robs you of your right to choose what you really want to do with your life.

It's really quite simple: if we want our lives to be different, all we have to do is make different choices.

Freedom is being able to choose whoever and whatever you want to be at any moment in your life.

His heart wanted Mary. And then it wanted Merry.

it's not what you've done that will fill you with regret, but what you haven't done?

Her life was her own now and if there was happiness to be found, it was up to her to seek it. She couldn't, wouldn't rely on anyone else ever again.

Olivia wondered whose idea it was to see the play. To Kill a Mockingbird wasn't the sort of entertainment she suspected a man like Warren would choose. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas seemed more his kind of show.

December 16 Meet the Man Who Turns Down Cookies What man in his right mind turns down warm-from-the-oven chocolate-chip cookies? Ebenezer does.

You do have a choice in how your life plays out. Some of you are fighting your present situation and making no more progress than someone fighting quicksand. You fight your husband, and every verbal punch you land leaves a bruise on you as well. It is time to stop struggling in strife, bitterness, frustration, and disappointment. You are about to read God's plan for a joyful marriage. It

Joy begins with thankfulness. Quite often our attitudes hang in the balance; by making a conscious choice, we can tip our souls into dark moods of complaining, or into thankfulness and praise. It is amazing how much your mouth controls your soul. You

Choosing not to feel pain is choosing a sort of death, a withering away of the expansive self.

The path you are on is one you chose for yourself

I act strictly according to the way I feel, my intuition. Miss Melba Obrenski

It was beyond frustrating to have circumstances always dictating her life. When would she ever get to make a choice about how her life looked?

How could she say anything other than "yes"? The only question she really had to answer was this: Was she going to do it begrudgingly or could she do it with a servant's heart?

No, that night, words were his weapon of choice. And they had inflicted far deeper wounds than his fists would in the months that followed.

I give my mind the liberty to follow the first wise or foolish idea that presents itself, just as in the avenue de Foy our dissolute youths follow close on the heels of some strumpet, then leave her to pursue another, attacking all of them and attaching themselves to none. My thoughts are my strumpets.

When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him.

I know they argue about whether or not it's right, whether or not the baby is alive at this point or that point in its growth inside the womb. This wasn't about that. It wasn't what the lawyers did. It wasn't what the doctors did, it wasn't what the woman did. It was what the mother and father did together.

There are 2 primary choices in life: To accept conditions as they exist, or to accept responsibility for changing them.