Quotes About Choice

Here is the End for me, if I want it — here is the Ceasing, when I want it.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

it is easier to change a decision that hasn't been made.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Now for the first time he realized how important it had been not to admit any alternative to the hard, decent, orthodox choice which need not be regarded as a choice at all; how important not to be different.

temptation, that in itself it is nothing but an opportunity for choice; so it is rather defeatist to feel very guilty about it, as though one were half ready to commit the sin.

It's not what one is, it's what one does with it.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Galway Kinnell recently said in an interview that a young poet has so many choices but an old poet must simply endure his chosen life.

I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to. But she met my father, who was a rather saintly clergyman, and he cancelled her out.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

I dedided it was more important to laugh than eat. - Mary Todd after choosing Lincoln over a more wealthy suitor

Whether any particular day shall bring to you more of happiness or of suffering is largely beyond your power to determine. Whether each day of your life shall give happiness or suffering rests with yourself. GEORGE S. MERRIAM.

The idea of my future simultaneously thrilled and terrified me, like standing at the lip of a very sheer cliff- I could fly, or fall. I didn't know how to fly, and I didn't want to fall. So I backed away from the cliff and went in search of something that had a clear, solid trajectory for me to follow, like hopscotch.

Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama.

If you fill your heart with love and gratitude, you will find yourself surrounded by so much that you can love and that you can feel grateful for, and you can even get closer to enjoying the life of health and happiness that you seek. But what will happen if you emit signals of hate, dissatisfaction, and sadness? Then you will probably find yourself in a situation that makes you hateful, dissatisfied, and sad. The life you live and the world you live in are up to you.

If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

Hay una gran diferencia entre la alegría y el dolor; si me piden que elija, buscaré la primera y evitaré la segunda. La primera está de acuerdo con la naturaleza, la segunda es contraria a ella.

pocas cosas están bajo nuestro control.

All choices and avoidances are relative to concrete circumstances. The answer to moral questions is always: carry out hedonic calculus. Measure the advantages versus the disadvantages. Since a pleasant life is the goal, we must avoid or defer instant gratification if it carries disadvantages greater than the pleasure it brings. We therefore sometimes choose disadvantages in the hopes of a greater, longer-term pleasure.

Cicero concluded that "the actual hitting of the mark [is] to be chosen but not to be desired,

Of all existing things some are in our power, and others are not in our power. In our power are thought, impulse, will to get and will to avoid, and, in a word, everything which is our own doing. Things not in our power include the body, property, reputation, office, and, in a word, everything which is not our own doing." Epictetus, Enchiridion, 1

Of all existing things some are in our power, and others are not in our power. In our power are thought, impulse, will to get and will to avoid, and, in a word, everything which is our own doing. Things not in our power include the body, property, reputation, office, and, in a word, everything which is not our own doing." Epictetus, Enchiridion,