Quotes About Choice

Pain can be better than meditation, because while meditation requires the constant choice to engage with the monkey mind, to gently push away those distracting thoughts, pain does the trick for you.

What distinguishes torture from masochism? In torture, the intensity of the assault on the self can be more severe, limitlessly so. But this isn't the key difference. What really matters is choice. There are no safe words in torture. To voluntarily obliterate one's self, temporarily and under situations of control, is one thing, and it can be blissful.

chosen suffering can generate and enhance pleasure, and that it is an essential part of meaningful activities and a meaningful life. And it's often the right thing to do. I'll repeat the quote from Zadie Smith: "It hurts just as much as it is worth." Sometimes pain is a proper acknowledgment of value.

benign masochism refers to the choice to pursue activities that are normally painful or unpleasant but not harmful.

Choosing to experience pain to enhance subsequent pleasure is a powerful trick, but it only works some of the time.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

Man is the sole and absolute master of his own fate forever. What he has sown in the times of his ignorance, he must inevitably reap; when he attains enlightenment, it is for him to sow what he chooses and reap accordingly. – Geraldine Coster

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

One way of grounding how we should identify refugees in a changing world is through the concept of force majeure - the absence of a reasonable choice but to leave.

As long as the relationships are beneficial and in line with God's Word, you have the freedom to associate with people of your choice.

You are free to ask for and choose what you enjoy and what brings you pleasure, as long as those choices are beneficial and in line with God's Word, and you have listened respectfully to and considered prayerfully what others need (not to be mistaken with what others usually want). This applies at work, play, home, church, in the bedroom, etc.

It didn't begin just before you were born. It began before the world was born. He placed his grace on you and wrote your story in such a way that at a certain point in time you would hear the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe. His love for you is never a result of your character; it is a clear demonstration of his. He granted you and me what we never could have deserved; our new life is his choice, his gift.

What will it be for you today—the discontent of doubt and fear or the contentment of peace and rest?

Jack asked himself: Would he have wanted to live out his life as a placid, contented, lobotomized Ferdinand the Bull? No. Then, what right did he have to inflict such a fate on anybody?

Producing happiness involves deciding, designing, and doing, and

We often think about small decisions more than we need to and about big decisions much less than is optimal for our happiness, such as spending days looking at what colors to paint the walls but only a couple of hours visiting the house we buy.

If a woman does marry, I suggest she has her own bed.

The failure to remember is not a lie, although liars will often try to excuse their lies, once discovered, by claiming a memory failure. It is not uncommon to forget actions that one regrets, but if the forgetting truly has occurred, we should not consider that a lie. for there was no choice involved. Often it will not be possible to determine whether a memory failure has occurred or whether its invocation is itself a lie.

Do what you like, so long as it is intelligent.

It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the human community. Or one dissents totally from their system of ideas and stands as a lonely human being. (But luckily one notices that the others are in the same crisis and making the same choices.)

I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

B?h není n?jaký kriminálník, který podvádí v kartách. Chce, abychom se jeho zákony ?ídili svobodn?, z vlastní v?le. Ani B?h nedokáže nakreslit kulatý ?tverec. B?h je osam?lý - chce, aby si lidé poslušnost sami zvolili, a ne aby k ní byli p?inuceni strachem.

Divorce is a very difficult decision to make and no one makes it lightly.

Did I want a lawyer? Hell no, I didn't even want to be a lawyer.