Quotes About Choice

Tôi có quy?n tin b?t c? Ä'i?u gì tôi th?y tin. Tôi ch? c?n ch?p nh?n h?u qu? cho ni?m tin c?a mình.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. —Carlos Castaneda Don Juan, Journey to Ixtlan

What third alternative?" Said Chang with the dream-like air of a man who finds himself doing the impossible. "They gave it to us," said the Machine.

I would rather go through this valley to find the honor that true wise men seek than choose those things that this man and his worldly friends think most worthy of our affections. Did

Everyone needs to make his own choices. You need to mind your own business and not meddle in ours. So

Y además", dijeron ellos, "si entramos en el camino, ¿qué importa de qué modo entramos? Si estamos dentro, estamos dentro; tú estás en el camino, y según percibimos, entraste por la puerta; y nosotros también estamos en el camino saltando por el muro; entonces, ¿en qué es tu condición mejor que la nuestra?".

Then I thought that it is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.)

Well, if nobody will have me... Mercy shrugged. I will die unmarried and my moral convictions will be to me like a husband. For I cannot change my nature, and for as long as I live I do not intend to marry someone who disagrees with me in this.

camino al cielo es tan empinado como una escalera, y que el camino al infierno tiene tanta pendiente como un monte. Pero prefiero subir por la escalera hacia la vida, que bajar por la pendiente hacia la muerte".

Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell?

Wherefore, sinner, here is laid a necessity upon thee, one of the two must be thy lot; either thou must accept God's grace, and be content to be saved freely thereby, notwithstanding all thy undeserving and unworthiness, or else thou must be damned for thy rebellion and for thy rejecting of this grace

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

Break a person's heart and you become a kind of amnesiac killer. All the empathy you possess is momentarily held in abeyance while you address yourself wholeheartedly to your own emotional survival. You're just doing what you have no choice but to do. You're just living. Then it's over, and standing amid the wreckage of your life you remember.

An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.

isn't fair. It isn't going to be fair. Stop sniveling and whining and go out and make it happen for you. Wishing that a risk wasn't yours to take won't make it any easier. In fact, it might make it harder. Your attitude about it is your choice.

Never complain about what you allow.

While we don't always get what we want, we always get what we choose.

What you make of life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need - what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. Stay mindful of your choices!

Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.

We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments, but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds.

Past hurts can make you bitter or better—the choice is yours.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." That may be true. But it's also true that you can feed a horse salt and make him thirsty.

When you get right down to it, intentional living is about living your best story.

Somos los amos o las víctimas de nuestras actitudes. Es un asunto de decisión personal. Lo que ahora somos es el resultado de las decisiones tomadas ayer. Mañana seremos lo que decidamos ahora.