Quotes About Choice

Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.

But you say you respect difference." "Different strengths we respect. Not weakness. What is the use in not actively engaging life? It passes anyhow. She thought of the asylum. "Sometimes you have no choice.

I will choose what enters me, what becomes of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. This is my body. If I give it to you I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

Jolly sensible of you. There always is a moment when one makes up one's mind about these things, and then it's much tidier to act at once.

When one's own courage is fixed in his heart, and when his resolution is devoid of doubt, then when the time comes he will of necessity be able to choose the right move. —from Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

There are two different worlds, the light world and the dark world. The question is: Which one wins? Answer: The one you feed, baby. The one you feed.

On n'est pas libre tant qu'on désire, qu'on veut, qu'on craint, peut-être tant qu'on vit.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

But you have to take control of your destiny. And sometimes that's not easy.

It is up to us to choose what is right. No one can make us eat a lie," she answers.

Listen,' someone whispers into my ear. 'Listen to me.' Am I dead? 'Listen,' the voice whispers. 'In some countries, you kill a monster when it's born. Other places, you kill it only when it kills someone else. Other places, you let it go, out into the forest or the sea, and it lives there forever, calling for others of its kind. Listen to me, it cries. Maybe it's just alone.

Maybe love is just that, and only that. The choice you make. And so, you choose to love. You choose to give it all up, to surrender your scared self and live in this mystery. Jik

Forever isn't always something one would choose, given all the information.

Love is not this simple thing. Love isn't this obvious thing. It's not about that first moment of knowing. It's about what you keep doing after you break each other's hearts. It's about choosing each other on terrible days as well as on beautiful ones. It's about picking each other up off the floor and then laughing about it later. You can go pretty far into disaster as long as you're willing to look at each other again. You can fix a lot of failures. You can fail as long as you keep trying.

Siempre hay alguien que elige, y otro que tiene que aceptar la elección.

If you do just one thing—make one conscious choice—that can change the world, go organic. Buy organic food. Stop using chemicals and start supporting organic farmers. No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future.

Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

mért engem választottál ki arra, hogy boldogtalanná tégy?

A lot of wisdom should go into choosing who to love you, and more to choose who to rule you…

Really, you don't have to—

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.