Quotes About Choice

They pretend to know that money can't buy them happiness, yet they would choose money every time. They celebrate mediocrity at every available opportunity and love to see others' misfortune.

Me pregunté por qué, puestos a tener banderas, no escogían una con un dibujo erótico.

most people don't want to be free. Because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try .

marriage was something you did at the appropriate time with the nearest available person. A game where you grabbed the first person you could find when the music stopped.

My mum died on different dates in different lives. I'd like a life where she is still here. Does that life exist?' Mrs Elm's attention switched to Nora. 'Maybe it does.' 'Great.' 'But you can't get there.' 'Why not?' 'Because this library is about your decisions. There was no choice you could have made that led to her being alive beyond yesterday. I'm sorry.

Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived.

She remembered something Mrs Elm had told her in the Midnight Library. 'You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try .

It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.' 'So why live at all?' 'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too. Now, what life do you want to choose next?

So, do you want to live a life you could be living? Do you want to do something differently? Is there anything you wish to change? Did you do anything wrong?' That was an easy one. 'Yes. Absolutely everything.

or if they had got married because marriage was something you did at the appropriate time with the nearest available person.

This isn't a magic lamp and I am no genie. There is no set number. It could be one. It could be a hundred. But you only have an infinite number of lives to choose from so long as the time in the Midnight Library stays, well, at midnight. Because while it stays at midnight, your life – your root life – is somewhere between life and death. If time moves here, that means something very . . .' She searched for a delicate word.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips, and unpicked flowers.

I)t was different because she was alive, when she had so nearly been dead. And because that had been her choice. A choice to live. Because she had touched the vastness of life and within that vastness she had seen the possibility not only of what she could do, but also feel.

Pi?manl?klar?n? telafi etme ?ans?n olsayd?, baz? konularda farkl? davran?r m?yd?n?

It's hard to predict, isn't it?' she asked, looking blankly in front of her as she moved a black bishop across the board to take a white pawn. 'The things that will make us happy.

live any life we want. Any life. Dream big . . . You can be anything you want to be. Because in one life, you are.

That excellent outcomes were the result of 'the wise choice of many alternatives'.

Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed in a lifetime, however much we try...

And it was different because she was alive, when she had so nearly been dead. And because that had been her choice. A choice to live.

There are more possible ways to play a game og chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. So it gets very messy. And there is no right way to play; there are many ways. In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything.

Sembra impossibile vivere senza ferire le persone». «Perché è così». «E allora perché vivere?». «Beh, a essere sinceri, anche morire fa soffrire le altre persone. Dunque, quale vita vorresti scegliere adesso?».

there are an infinite number of divergent parallel universes. Every moment of your life you enter a new universe.

If you really want to live a life hard enough, you don't have to worry. You will stay there as if you have always been there. Because in one universe you have always been there. The book will never be returned, so to speak. It becomes less of a loan and more of a gift. The moment you decide you want that life, really want it, then everything that exists in your head now, including this Midnight Library, will eventually be a memory so vague and intangible it will hardly be there at all.