Quotes About Choice

And from these corporal nutriments perhaps   Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit   Improv'd by tract of time, and wingd ascend   Ethereal, as wee, or may at choice   Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell;

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit

Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

Qué importa el sitio donde yo resida, si soy siempre el mismo y el que debo ser [...] vale más reinar en el infierno que servir en el cielo.

Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.

They themselves ordained their Fall. The first sort by their own suggestion fell Self-tempted, self-depraved.

Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and providence their guide; They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

From some points of view, the demonic is not that which hides in the shadows, but lives among us, is us, in every choice we make and don't make.

To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.

To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:   Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.

Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.

But of the tree whose operation brings Knowledge of good and ill, which I have set The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith, Amid the garden by the tree of life, Remember what I warn thee. Shun to taste. And shun the bitter consequence. For know, The day thou eatest thereof, my sole command Transgressed, inevitably thou shalt die, From that day mortal; and this happy state Shalt lose, expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow.

Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.

Here at least We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours.

Freely we serve, because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall

To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

The mind is it's own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell , Hell of Heaven.

Depression is good at making you think it's not even there and that you are the problem. Depression wants you to think you made a choice to be this way.

Walk around feeling like a leaf. Know you could tumble any second, then decide what to do with your time.

God wants to be known, but not in a way that overwhelms us, that takes away the possibility of love freely chosen. "God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away," said Meister Eckhart.

But a philosopher named William James responded that sometimes Clifford's advice is bad strategy. He said doubt is the wrong alternative when three conditions are met: when we have live options, when the stakes are momentous, and when we must make a choice.3

So temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.