Quotes About Choice

The Light is always there. How much light comes to you depends on you.

I like believing, and I'm something of a professional dreamer, but I want to be able to choose what to believe in.

Every one is the architect of his own fortune.

Trinity The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.

Books are companions; choose your companions wisely.

Dragonfly can't decide which blade of grass to land on

Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.

I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.

People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little anthill. You just take one baby step in any direction and you're already there. You've doing something awful. And your life is changed forever.

People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little anthill. You just take one baby step in any direction and you're already there. You've done something awful. And your life is changed forever.

Would you rather be great at something you like, or just okay at something you love?

It was so easy. A slight curl of his right pointer finger and a man's life was gone forever.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

Whereas couples who aren't married stay together because they want to be together.

Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose.

Frankl focused his psychologist's eye on ultrarealists he encountered in these awful places, writing that "the way they bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement," which proved that "any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually.

It is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy. We can't tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.

You can choose choices but not outcomes.

The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn't this objective unchangeable thing called 'The World'. No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds. We read it in our own way. But also: we can, to a degree, choose what to read. We have to work out what about the world makes us feel sad or scared or confused or ill or calm or happy.

One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips and unpicked flowers.

Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes.

And death is the opposite of possibility.

You can't choose where you are born, you can't decide who won't leave you, you can't choose much. A life has unchangeable tides the same as history does. But there is still room inside it for choice. For decisions.

Do you ever think 'how did I end up here?' Like you are in a maze and totally lost and it's all your fault because you were the one who made every turn?