Quotes About Choice

The Lord gives us wings He gives us a stomach we can fly or vomit

I left Mephistopheles, the angels, and the remnants of our handmade world, saying, "I choose Earth.

Without realizing it, I had said goodbye to traditional employment. I never punched a clock again. I made my own time and my own money.

El taxi llega tan rápido que no me da tiempo a elegir qué libros llevarme. La perspectiva de embarcar en un avión sin un libro me produce una oleada de pánico. El libro adecuado puede ser una especie de maestro, que marca el tono o incluso altera el curso de un viaje.

Taxin kommer för snabbt och jag inser att jag inte har valt ut några böcker. Tanken på att stiga ombord på ett flygplan utan bok ger mig panik. Rätt bok kan vara ett slags guide, något som sätter tonen för resan eller till och med får den att byta riktning.

Happily there seemed to be an actual human choosing songs with abandoned disconnect.

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

Freedom is not the ability to act without any constraints whatsoever. Given the constraints under which all human beings operate, freedom is the ability to choose how to respond to them.

Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves, but it does not follow that they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children.

the world as it was could never be more than a fraction of the world, for the real also consisted of what could have happened but didn't, that one road was no better or worse than any other road, but the torment of being alive in a single body was that at any given moment you had to be on one road only, even though you could have been on another, traveling toward an altogether different place.

I'm saying you'll never know if you made the wrong choice or not. You would need to have all the facts before you knew, and the only way to get all the facts is to be in two places at the same time--which is impossible.

Every man is the author of his own life.

Good begets good; evil begets evil; and even if the good you give is met by evil, you have no choice but to go on giving better than you get. Otherwise-and these were Willy's exact words-why bother to go on living?

There is no escape from this. Either you do or you don't. And if you do, you can't be sure of doing it the next time. And if you don't, you never will again.

Quinn froze. There was nothing he could do now that would not be a mistake. Whatever choice he made--and he had to make a choice--would be arbitrary, a submission to chance. Uncertainty would haunt him to the end. At that moment, the two Stillmans started on their way again. The first turned right, the second turned left. Quin craved an amoeba's body, wanting to cut himself in half and run off in two directions at once. (Chapter 7)

Only God can see the main road and the back road at the same time—which means that only God can know if you made the right choice or the wrong choice.

It was a dizzying prospect—to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made.

I learned that freedom can be dangerous. If you don't watch out, it can kill you.

I'm saying you'll never know if you made the wrong choice or not. You would need to have all the facts before you knew, and the only way to get all the facts is to be in two places at the same time—which is impossible. And? And that's why people believe in God.

It was a dizzying prospect—to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made. He could go anywhere he wanted, he could do anything he felt like doing, and not a single person in the world would care.

Joubert (1801): «Solo debes elegir por esposa a la mujer que escogerías como amigo, si fuera hombre».

For those looking to find the thing that you've lost, the decision of where to place your handbill is one of the toughest you'll ever make in life.

true freedom is having the right to be a slave.

one's self-worth comes from how one chooses to navigate that space.