Quotes About Choice

It is secondary whether we choose belief or defiance. What is precious is that we are always able to choose.

The freedom to choose and to change belongs to us.

One side of a ridge is cold and foggy, The other is hot and dry. Just by choosing where you stand, You alter your destiny.

So much easier to say, 'The devil made him do it,' than to face up to something much more horrifying: somebody, a person just like you, decided to do evil. And enjoys it.

Most people believe the apple merely represented Knowledge. But we know better. It was the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Nothing less than the curse of consciousness. Of moral responsibility. Of always, ever after, having to choose between what is right and what is wrong.

Love doesn't work like that, one or the other. Don't you know that yet?

I would always be earthbound; he hadn't robbed me of my ability to fly or to live forever. I appreciated nuns now, not the conscripted kind, but modern women who chose it. If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

the urgent question: Should I stay in this relationship or leave? She had been living a good life with her husband and two daughters. Located in a quiet neighborhood in the suburbs, her house was immaculate and beautifully decorated, her well-tended gardens extensive. She'd been married for fifteen years, apparently happily. She and her gentle husband, Doug, were devoted to raising their

Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings.

On, narode, sve?e, mu?eni?e! Zašto putuješ u tre?oj klasi? I zašto uop?e putuješ? Zaustavi vlak! Okreni ga da te vozi kamo ti ho?eš. A ne kamo on ho?e. Skreni ga sa kolosijeka - nek' te vozi k sre?i! Što se mu?iš i patiš?

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

D iscerning God's will is not an experience of warm and fuzzy feelings. Rather, it means recognizing and choosing things that are good in themselves and are the good things that God wants us to do. In our discernment process, we need balance, and we can achieve this by integrating our intellect, our will, and our emotions into our prayer and discernment. All three are necessary to discern God's will properly. Each one in isolation can be inadequate for the task.

First and foremost in this struggle, we need an authentic prayer life that deepens our relationship with God and reconciles us to him. We must also have a desire to choose for our lives whatever gives the greater glory to God, which requires that we be "equal-minded"—happy with whatever good option that we discern our Lord most wants for our lives.

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.

Fear is something I don't think you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, then you're liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along doing what has to be done.

fear is something i don't you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, you're liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along and do what has to be done.".,

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

May those who follow their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory