Quotes About Choice

the fine binding of his volume of Balzac I asked him which was his favourite novel in the Comédie Humaine, he replied, his thoughts irresistibly attracted to the same topic: "Either one thing or the other, a tiny miniature like the Curé de Tours and the Femme abandonnée, or one of the great frescoes like the series of Illusions perdues. What! You've never read Illusions perdues?

La fidelidad: ¿indispensable o necesaria? Lo segundo es más hermoso, implica opción, no tiene la fealdad de la norma. Entre lo indispensable y lo necesario corre un chorro de agua prístina que no solo refresca, sino que arremete contra la rigidez, la ablanda, la amolda y la baña de una superficie que al endurecerse la convierte en confitura y no en piedra.

In addition, the Supreme Court has explained that children have rights independent of their parents: Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow that they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves.111

Give us either bright sun or pouring rain—the in-between stuff depresses me.

La felicidad es una elección

Ama o sálvate: elige.

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in your power. Take away then, when you choose, your opinion, and like a mariner who has rounded the headland, you will find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay.

No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

Then isn't it better to do what's up to you - like a free man - than to be passively controlled by what isn't, like a slave or a beggar?

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

I have only one piece of advice for what it's worth: if you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.

Over the last week, if there's anything I've learned, it's that you're only who you choose to be. Every moment. The past is gone. Memories are no more solid than dreams. The only real thing, the only true thing, is the present. That's it." -- "So the things we've done don't count?" "Of course they do. But we can decide how much. ?And we can decide what we want the present to be like. We can live it however we want.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. —Robert Frost

You can't stop the future. All you can do is pick a side.

It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your life could have taken.

There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

We have the freedom to decide for ourselves how circumstances affect us and can choose to interpret events so that they have a meaning for us. In this way, even suffering can become endurable if it can be shown to be meaningful.

As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.

There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.