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Quotes About Choice

Your world is reborn each morning. And you are allowed to start over, at least in spirit, choosing your way with a beginners mind. Open wide the doors and windows, or close them and sit by the fire. But wherever you are, make room for the new, the uncertain, the mystery...And Love..
~ Jack Kornfield
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
~ Jack Kornfield
You will begin to see desire's impermanent nature, and you will also realize that you do not have to act on every thought or desire. You will learn that you can choose from the many possibilities of how to respond to desire when it arises, and you can discover a new kind of freedom, where you do not have to follow your desires, but can choose to behave in new ways in response to your desires.
~ Jack Kornfield
Your world is reborn each day... And you are allowed to start over, at least in spirit, choosing your way with a beginners mind. Open wide the doors and windows, or close them and sit by the fire. But wherever you are, make room for the new, the uncertain, the mystery.. and love...
~ Jack Kornfield
if a yogi is so well blessed with karma to be one who can tread the pleasant path, one who can gain wisdom without undergoing pain, then he can work on pleasant sensation. But for the overwhelming majority of us, as may be observed, there is no choice but to tread the path of unpleasant sensation, for we are not blessed with such karma.
~ Jack Kornfield
When a nation was faced with a choice between abstract principle or complete self-interest, it took self-interest every time.
~ Jack L. Chalker
The only people who can honestly claim to be completely free agents in matters of eros are those who have shielded themselves from its risks—at the cost of limiting their pleasures.
~ Unknown
condition for days? Or should I end her torture quickly? I couldn't take her to the hospital, I'd go to jail for sure. I
~ Unknown
deep regret, "none of this would ever have happened.
~ Unknown
Well Dennis you don't have to hear any of the mountain music they play here. Telling the young lies so that they can learn to get old. Favouring them with biscuits. "It's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville, declension on a three mile grade." In either case collision course. You either pick up the music or you don't.
~ Jack Spicer
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
~ Jack Vance
Control your own Destiny or somebody else will
~ Jack Welch
When you own your choices, you own their consequences.
~ Jack Welch
If someone loses a key and then finds it again, which key does one keep, the old or the new? The queen replied; 'Certainly the old one.
~ Jack Zipes
I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
~ Jackie Chan
Never do anything you don't want to do," he said, very slowly. "Never. You understand me?
~ Jackie Collins
I think I'll get a nut roast. Maybe a nut roast is too lesbian?
~ Jackie Kay
Do things in your own time. Everybody should like how they choose. We never know what goes behind the blinds.
~ Jackie Kay
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
~ Jackie Mason
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
~ Jackie Mason
Our summer missionaries did not stay to see this though we hoped they might yearn for it somehow. Stay for the party. The fleeting volunteer sometimes catches a course- sweet and sour - but no one savours the whole menu like me. 'Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink,' said the master of tbe banquet when he called the bridegroom aside, 'but you have saved the best til now.
~ Jackie Pullinger
They say it can't be won, The way the game is run. But if you choose to stay You wind up playin' anyway.
~ Unknown
Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.
~ Jacob M. Appel
Make up your mind because you can't make up time
~ Unknown