Quotes About Choice

Angel sinirlenerek sordu : - Mahvolmaktan ne kastediyorsun? - Kaderi olan hayattan ba?ka bir hayat? kendine zorlayan adama mahvolmu? diyorum. Angel ba??n? sallad? : -Mahvolmu? adam buna m? derler? Ya kaderi olan hayattan ba?ka bir hayat? kendine zorlamayan adama ne dersin?

No one will ever know why Dr. Frisch chose such a rag from his precious, renowned collection. Perhaps only to use it for his last match, with death.

she knows the truth: being free and facing the world with all its monsters is better than being safe and leaving your life unlived.

Never regret anything, because at one time it was exactly what you wanted. MARILYN MONROE

I set before you life or death, blessing or curse. Therefore, choose life" (Deuteronomy 30:19). Why, I wondered, would God waste precious breath on saying something so obvious? I had failed to understand the perverse comfort we sometimes get from choosing death in life, exempting ourselves from the challenge of using our gifts, of living our lives in authentic relationship with others.

Each time I walk into a classroom, I can choose the place within myself from which my teaching will come, just as I can choose the place within my students toward which my teaching will be aimed. I need not teach from a fearful place: I can teach from my curiosity or hope or empathy or honesty, places that are as real within me as are my fears. I can have fear, but I need not be fear - if I am willing to stand somewhere else in my inner landscape.

How, exactly, do we resolve dilemmas that tempt us to choose either this or that and instead hold the tension long enough to let a "third thing" emerge?

if we who are privileged find ourselves confined, it is only because we have conspired in our own imprisonment.

spirit of gratitude acknowledges that others, including our spouse, friends, and God, gave us many gifts, big and small, to help us achieve the goodness in our lives. Gratitude is a relationship-strengthening spirit. It's more than a feeling. It's an attitude, a habit, a choice, a motive, a way of life.3 Perhaps that's why Cicero, the Roman philosopher, said, "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

There is no fate but what we make

we can't re-write the beginning, but we can write what happens now for whats written for the future

We now have every right except the right not to be blissful.

Let everyone be left free not to be happy without feeling ashamed, or to be happy episodically as one sees fit. Issue no decisions, make no laws, impose nothing. If we do not want a legitimate aspiration to degenerate into a collective punishment, we must treat the pitiless idol of happiness with the most extreme disrespect.

none of this talk. A week or so later, thinking about Mark's words, Randy had decided to go into

I would rather have cookies in my jacket pockets than a chain around my dog's neck.

Urgency is a tiebreaker only between two tasks of equal validity.

He gripped it and the sky began to spin; and Pidge knew that if he didn't put it right, the country would somehow obey the signpost and twist around and that, even though he was directly headed for Shancreg and home, he would end up in Kyledove.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

All you have been waiting for is your own permission.

Follow, poet, follow right to the bottom of the night. I have no choice but to pursue the deepest truth my life has given me.

I reflected that had he married for attraction alone he could have had me. Had he married for money alone, he could have had Miss Vincy. Instead he had chosen a compromise between the two and had ended up with Miss Charity Winthrop. I did not think he could have done worse for himself if he'd tried.

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.

Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.