Quotes About Choice

In speculation, you should put your money into ventures that genuinely attract you, and only those.

But what we are, we are, on account of our own diligence or negligence, and what we shall be in the future depends upon what we will to be and not upon Divine caprice or upon inexorable fate. No matter what the circumstances, it lies with us to master them, or to be mastered, as we will.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

For only he who is alive is in the right.

Das Gefängnis betritt man gewöhnlich nicht freiwillig und bleibt auch selten freiwillig darin, sondern hegt das egoistische Verlangen nach Freiheit.

Now why, if one strives for freedom out of love for the I, why not choose the I itself as beginning, middle and end ? Am I not worth more than freedom? Am I not the one who makes myself free, am I not the first? Even unfree, even in a thousand fetters, still I am; and I do not, like freedom, only exist as a future thing, in hopes, but even as the most degraded slave I am also present.

Cada persona tiene que conocer cuál es el dios o el demonio que maneja los hilos de su vida.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

To choose is to age." Who said that? Who cares? I pictured myself taking a right, then a left, then a right again.

Decide What You Want—Not What You Don't Want

You may not control all of the events that happen to you but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I'm thinking," he said. To bed or not to bed his wife? That was the question.

There are many ways to rule, many things required to be un hombre or to be una mujere, for each person can decide for himself. Sometimes you can even be both. Without having to choose one or the other

Prijateljstvo se ne bira, rekao je, ono biva, ko zna zbog ?ega, kao ljubav. A ništa ja nisam tebi poklonio, ve? sebi.

Život je širi od svakog propisa. Moral je zamisao, a život je ono što biva. Kako da ga uklopimo u zamisao, a da ga ne oštetimo? Više je štete naneseno životu zbog sprje?avanja grijeha, nego zbog grijeha.

Ne vjerujem da mi je unaprijed zapisan put kojim ?u pro?i, jer ne vjerujem u neki naro?it red ovoga svijeta. Ne odlu?ujemo, ve? se zati?emo. Strmoglavljeni smo u igru, punu nebrojenih izmjena, jednog odre?enog trenutka, kad nas samo ta prilika ?eka, jedina koja nas može sa?ekati, u toku miješanja. Ne možes je zaobi?i, ni odbiti. Tvoja je, kao voda u koju padneš. Pa plivaš, ili potones.

Friendship is not chosen, he said, it happens, who knows why, like love. And I haven't bestowed anything on you, but on myself; I respect men who remain magnanimous even in their misfortune.

Život je izbor a ne sudbina, jer obi?an ?ovjek živi kako mora, a pravi kako ho?e. Život na koji se bez otpora pristaje to je bijedno tavorenje, a izabrani život je sloboda. ?ovjek postaje slobodan svojom odlukom, otporom i nepristajanjem.

Uvijek ?ovjek ima malo mogu?nosti za izbor. Uglavnom dvije, da strada ?asno ili ne?asno. Ja sam ?astan ?ovjek i izabrao sam ovu drugu. Najgore što smo slobodni da biramo, a mislimo da nismo. Bolje bi bilo da nismo.

Zivot je siri od svakog propisa. Moral je zamisao, a zivot je ono sto biva.