Quotes About Choice

A situation comes up, and either you do this or that, or maybe a third alternative comes up. But you simply do not choose. You never really choose anything. It's all presented to you, and then you have alternatives.

They say that people should be free to do as they like. That's what I think. But if they start preaching at me, they can go to hell.

You will either fear God or other people. There are no other alternatives.

It is just to say that, for the addict, slavery with the object of desire is sometimes preferable to freedom without it.

When the only one who has a right to be angry chooses love and service, when He considers the interests of others more important than His own and chooses humility–He changes everything (p. 55).

others, and so on. And anything that is opposed to God in our lives is actually one of the many gods of the kingdom of earth. You will always be running scared if you worship other gods, because idols can't deliver on their promises. In the Old Testament, the choice before

How do you even choose what to mend when so much has already been destroyed? How could she think, she asked herself, that she could revive or save anything?

Having money is a way of being free of money.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better....

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

Life offers a cruel choice: you can be right or happy. Not both. This is true regardless of whom you may be involved with, but it is especially true if there is an emotional vampire in your life.

The Master talked of buying a whalebone-and-steel-and-snow bull terrier, or a more formidable if more greedy Great Dane. But the Mistress wanted a collie. So they compromised by getting the collie.

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

La gente termina pareciéndose a sus amigos, por lo que es clave elegirlos bien.

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.