Quotes About Choice

we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are.

All of the above.

as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment then for what it was; I suppose we never do.

If we don't want a baby, we must take responsibility for our actions before a baby becomes a reality. God has made us capable of having babies, and when one has been conceived, it is His intention for that child to come into the world. The moment the child is conceived, he is a person, and to abort a pregnancy is murder of a human being.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

Jack is reacting rather than acting. And as long as she keeps doing that, she's not going to change fate.

That's why I refused. But after the media

Funny thing about regrets. I don't lament what I've done, but rather, what I didn't do.

Then I'm making a choice right now, to not join you in your self-loathing pity party. Guilt and regret are useless emotions.

I chose some dark bread, and a non-dairy, low-fat, butter-flavored spread, which had such a long list of chemical ingredients on the package it should have been called "I Can't Believe It's Not Cancer.

What the bolson tortoise reminds us is that it is ultimately less important to choose a baseline than it is to choose a direction. The direction the tortoise points to is the opposite of apocalypse.

Every man has power to 'lose his own soul' (Matthew 26:26).

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

It's a risk, I suppose. But wouldn't you learn and grow regardless of what the result was? That would be a gain, even if playing in Ringestad were not." Lorelin stepped lightly after her sister. "Don't just sit there, do something?" Irisa sat on the low wall and patted the spot beside her invitingly. "Except there's also: don't just do something, sit there!" Lorelin laughed. How did you tell which wisdom-saying to follow?

Freedom was traditionally understood as the power to do what one ought to do.

which I thought was a gift, until it proved to be a curse. Life is all a matter of choosing which voices to tune in and which to tune out, a lesson I learned long before most people, but one that took me longer than most to put to good use.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

The wisdom of the past becomes the bridge to the future, like the rising and setting of the Sun in a continuous motion of ageless beauty. Healing becomes the understanding of a calm spirit, connecting the memory of our ancestors and all living things, experiencing a sense of oneness in the energy-flow of choice and presence through unity of mind, body,

The day you chose what you want to do, is the day you chose how u wan to live.

The road my elders dictate is a narrow one, and I no longer believe it to be the road to wisdom. I choose my ow road. I choose to do the right thing, as you call it. I would not choose another companion for that road, and should you choose to walk that road with me, it would be..," his voice faltered, unable to put words to Alain's feelings, but he met her eyes, trying to let his feelings show. Perhaps he succeeded this time, because once again Mari blushed and bent her head.

There's always a choice," she said, opening her eyes again and meeting Flyn's with a somber gaze of her own. "You have to be willing to make it.

If the people we think we see are but shadows of the world illusion, what matter what we tell them? It becomes not a matter of truth and lies, but a question of whether either matters. The choice of what to do is mine.

Not making a decision was making a decision not to move. A decision to fail.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. ROBERT FRITZ