Quotes About Choice

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.

We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.

Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice?

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

She finally said: 'I want to provide you with the opportunity to be free to make a choice of belonging with someone, but never to someone else'.

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.

Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

I am willing to let go. I release others to experience whatever is meaningful to them, and I am free to create that which is meaningful to me.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

If you stopped yourself every time you said, I have to and changed it to, I get to, it might change your entire experience.