Quotes About Choice

There are many paths to Tassajara but only one road.

Are you capable of flying, or will you stay grounded like all the others, too scared to break free from the herd and become what you have it in you to be? What is the Holy Grail? You are, if you choose it to be so!

Will we fall into the abyss, or will we become Supermen and Superwomen, and finally Gods? The future of our souls is about to be decided. We can place ourselves on a divine trajectory, or sink back into the slime, defeated by our inability to overcome our feelings and our addictive stories. The choice, ladies and gentlemen, is yours. These are the highest possible stakes. The moment of decision has come. Enlightenment – or the slime.

I understand I've made an unusual lifestyle choice. But the label 'crazy' bothers me. Annoys me. Because it prevents response. When someone asks if you're crazy, Knight lamented, you can either say yes, which makes you crazy, or you can say no, which makes you sound defensive, as if you fear that you really are crazy. There's no good answer.

How many things there are that I do not want. —SOCRATES, CIRCA 425 B.C.

Dü?ünmenin alternatifi duygular de?il, dü?ünmemektir.

Al??veri? merkezlerinde her ?ey, herhangi bir ?ey istememenin feci kabal??a girece?i hissini yaratmak üzere tasarlan?r.

En son kimden "Kabahat bende" laf?n? duyduk? Sartre'?n "?nsan, do?as? ve seçimlerinden tümüyle sorumludur" demesinin üzerinden yüzlerce y?l geçmi? sanki. Bugün tam tersi geçerli. ?nsanlar ne do?alar?ndan ne de seçimlerinden sorumlular.

?nsan, hayvan oldu?unu bilen, dolay?s?yla hayvan gibi davranmama seçene?ine sahip tek hayvand?r.

Madem tüm seçenekler saçma, o zaman gelin en asilini seçelim." - Flaubert

Better to stay on the boat, though, and fetch it about. Better to remain alive, and throw the lifebuoy. Surely!" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

Decisions make themselves when you're coming downhill at seventy kilometres an hour. Suddenly there's the edge of nothingness in front of you. Swerve left? Swerve right? Or think about it and die? In your head you swerve both ways …" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

Most of us cherish the notion of free choice, but our choices are constrained by the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age.

Superpowers, don't always make you a superhero. - Duck

Why do people do evil things? Messenger's answer stunned me, "Why did you?

Regardless, why accept any risk at all when you can choose organic soy products, which by law exclude GMOs?

Your family history does not have to become your personal destiny. Just

Note that to break a bad habit or create a new one, we have to select a new action (eat an apple) rather than just give up an existing behavior (don't eat potato chips).3798 To activate the habit-forming mechanism, you likely need a new alternative response, rather than a nonresponse.

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance.

He hadn't been anything but tired and scared for six months and he'd lost a lot, mostly people, and seen far too much, but he was breathing in and breathing out, some kind of choice all by itself.

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.

I was happy as a clam. But who wants to be a clam?

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool, or you go out in the ocean.