Quotes About Choice

Not making a decision —eating "like everyone else" —is to make the easiest decision, a decision that is increasingly problematic. Without question, in most places and in most times, to decide one's diet by not deciding —to eat like everyone else —was probably a fine idea.

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- I'm easy; I'll eat anything -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society. Food choices are determined by many factors, but reason (even consciousness) is not generally high on the list.

Different people will draw the line in different places with regard to farms like Paul's and Frank's. People I respect draw it differently. But for me, for now —for my family now —my concerns about the reality of what meat is and has become are enough to make me give it up altogether.

Just as nothing we do has the direct potential to cause nearly as much animal suffering as eating meat, no daily choice that we make has a greater impact on the environment.

Entweder suchen wir uns aus, was wir veraendern, oder wir werden diejenigen sein, auf die sich Veraenderungen auswirken

That really changed me, when I realized that an excruciating life is worse than an excruciating death.

I know that it is not necessary that there be one right thing. There may be two right things. There may be no right things.

Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?

I have already told you Father, more than once: I'm not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I'm not going to bury myself in some planter's kitchen, and I'm not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office

Yo no sabía si era yo quien siempre elegía mal las compañías o si la gente acababa siendo diferente de lo que yo pensaba" - Déjame que te cuente

La libertad consiste en ser capaz de elegir entre lo que es posible para mí y hacerme responsable de mi elección.

La búsqueda en cuestión... es un camino sin metas pero con grandes satisfacciones; es un recorrido sin mapas pero con un rumbo; es un sendero único y personal pero abierto a todos; es una ruta sin final pero que puede dejarse en cualquier momento; es un viaje que algunas veces no es el resultado de una elección y que, a pesar de eso, está siempre lleno de decisiones.

Y si la libertad no existiera, no existiría la autonomía. Y si la autonomía no existiera, no existiría la autodependencia. Y si la autodependencia existiera, y sabiendo que no la independencia tampoco existe, no nos quedaría otra posibilidad que la dependencia...

Y si la libertad no existiera, no existiría la autonomía. Y si la autonomía no existiera, no existiría la autodependencia. Y si la autodependencia no existiera, y sabiendo que no la independencia tampoco existe, no nos quedaría otra posibilidad que la dependencia...

Es muy perjudicial tratar de empujarnos a sentir cosas que no sentimos, actuar como si las sintiéramos. Porque los sentimientos no se eligen, suceden.

Siempre hay dos opciones existenciales: estamos en el amor o estamos en el miedo. Cuando estamos instalados en el miedo, tememos ser heridos y el corazón se cierra, el ego toma el control y queremos un disfrute sin riesgos. Nos volvemos posesivos, queremos todo de todos, que nos contengan, que nos tengan en cuenta permanentemente, que no nos sofoquen ni manipulen.

Nada me obliga a seguir adelante, nada que no sea mi propio deseo de hacerlo.

Mi historia personal puede condicionar mi elección, pero no me quita la posibilidad de elegir.

O verbo ler, como o verbo amar e o verbo sonhar, não suporta o modo imperativo. Eu aconselho sempre os meus alunos que se um livro os aborrece o abandonem; que não o leiam porque é famoso, que não o leiam porque é moderno, que não o leiam porque é um clássico. A leitura deve ser uma das formas da felicidade e não se pode obrigar ninguém a ser feliz.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of the others. In the almost unfathomable Ts'ui Pen, he chooses – simultaneously – all of them. He thus creates various futures, various times which start others that will in their turn branch out and bifurcate in other times. That is the cause of the contradictions in the novel.

Hay que tener cuidado al elegir a los enemigos porque uno termina pareciéndose a ellos.