Quotes About Choice

The lines change. Did you know that? Destiny is not fixed. It's a probable path, but life alters it. Otherwise, how boring life would be, non?

I've just always viewed marriage as a job, and it's not the job I want for myself in the foreseeable

much of life requires waiting and we have a choice to do it happily or miserably.

whatever we're doing, healthy or unhealthy, is always a solution to some problem.

And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.

Hosiah Lister, now dead, rec'd his freedom." Consider, then, the full measure of my sadness, reading this inscription; not merely for Hosiah Lister, but for all of us, consider the dear cost of liberty in a world so hostile, so teeming with enemies and opportunists, that one could not become free without casting aside all casualty, all choice, all will, all identity; finding freedom only in the spacious blankness of unbeing, the wide plains of nonentity, infinite and still.

The criminal profile of corpse-eaters was surprising. Only 2 percent had a previous criminal record. They were primarily women, uneducated females with no employment and no local Leningrad address. They were, in other words, often refugees who had fled to the city and who therefore did not have ration books at all. They had to make a choice between eating those already dead or dying themselves.

I'll breathe in whatever face I want to breathe in.

Don't let me return as a woman in my next life! I'd rather be a dog or a rat than suffer this pain again!

We all have an eraser incorporated within us, a delete key, but we forget how to use it. Ho'oponopono helps us to remember the power that we have to choose between erasing (letting go) or reacting, being happy or suffering. It is only a matter of choice in every moment of our lives.

God waits for our permission and doesn't invade our privacy as we do with others. Everybody has free choice.

If your company mission is to climb a tree, which would you rather do: hire a squirrel or train a horse?

É melhor cair das nuvens que de um segundo andar

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

De ware schuldige is niet degene die zich gedwongen ziet een dergelijke keuze te maken; de schuld ligt bij degenen die de omstandigheden hebben geschapen waarin zulke keuzes moeten worden gemaakt".

She wanted to tell him that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand up and confront themselves and realize that it wasn't the Party that made them do it. One day, they would be alone with their actions.

She wanted to tell them that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand up and confront themselves and realize it wasn't the party that made them do it. One day, they would be alone with their actions.

Doing the right thing often resulted in living the wrong thing forever. -Christian, Marquess of Eastrerbrook

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

emotions don't dictate choices.

You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.

I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open.

The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death.

I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.