Quotes About Choice

Marriage has just never interested me.

Love as thou wilt

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

Look at them. They're pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first.

The reality is not always our destiny.

Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could give you the universe, but I'm not going to in case you get hurt? There's all this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

And all the worlds you are - Ohio and Greenville Woodson and Irby Gunnar's Child and Jack's daughter Jehovah's Witness and nonbeliever listener and writer Jackie and Jacqueline - gather into one world called You where You decide what each world and each story and each ending will finally be.

My fingers curl into fists, automatically This is the way, my mother said, of every baby's hand. I do not know if these hands will become Malcolm's—raised and fisted or Martin's—open and asking or James's—curled around a pen.

Jacqueline Woodson

Visions are possibilities. Actions are the only thing able to determine our futures.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Faith has to come to birth as a free act, not a forced one. Otherwise it has no meaning.

Once again we are faced with a choice of "all or nothing." If we make use of technique, we must accept the specificity and autonomy of its ends, and the totality of its rules. Our own desires and aspirations can change nothing.

Arousing an active and mythical belief" The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action. It is no longer to change adherence to a doctrine, but to make the individual cling irrationally to a process of action. It is no longer to lead to a choice, but to loosen the reflexes. It is no longer to transform an opinion, but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

El proceso analítico es cuando el yo decide si quiere aquello que desea.

Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.

?lovek si musí teda sám pre seba ur?i?, ktoré najvyššie dobro je jeho š?astím. musí si zvoli? svoje š?astie, alebo teda najvyššie dobro, a osud jeho mravného života závisí na tom, ?i jeho vo?ba je alebo nie je v zhode s tým, ?o v takom prípade požaduje pravda

I don't photograph anything I don't like. I do the flowers, I don't do the weeds.

I love you. Feel that. It beats for you. If you want me, you'll make me the happiest man in the world. If you don't, then there will simply be a hole here. My heart is yours to take or to break

But when it comes to the inner situation, there is only one ingredient: you. At least you must happen the way you want.

You cannot choose a Guru. Deepen your longing and the Guru will choose you

What people are suffering is their freedom. That's why it is so tragic. If