Quotes About Choice

I have one overarching preference, and that is whatever the universe prefers. I don't have to like it or understand it, though I usually do.

The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning—the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life—a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.

It's your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn't. Home is death.

Either do it or don't do it. You'll regret it either way

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

Migration is always a choice to live. The opposite of migration is not citizenship. It is containment, the condition of being unfree shared with all who are considered less than citizens. The migrant reminds the citizen of the rights that they should be guaranteed.

No one chooses to be overwhelmed, but they sure as heck allow it to happen.

When given a choice between two, choose the third.

You can either plan to be eternally vigilant and ready, eschewing life as we know it, or be willing to enjoy life and pay the price.

A nation could choose to observe socialist tenets. Communism meant rigid government control—people had no choice other than to comply, and government mandate rather than personal accomplishment determined the course of their lives. Peoples Temple socialism was intended to change hearts through example, not coercion.

Why would God allow Adam and Eve to go through this temptation? Because He wanted them to choose who would be lord of their lives. The woman was convinced when she saw the beauty of the tree and how delicious its fruit looked that she wanted the wisdom it would give her. She was convinced that the tree would give her something God would not.

The choice we face as we think about the future is, should we continue to be driven by our biological past or choose instead to embrace our newly emerged intelligence? We may not be able to do both.

If it was true that all paths in our World led to only one place, then why not fill whatever path you chose with the best things you could find?

Each question would open a door. What Glenn had to ask herself was, did she want to step through them to the other side?

If you want to, and you don't, then that's on you.

People bring their own shit to the way they see things. If they don't believe what you're doing is right, that's their choice. But the choice has more to do with them than with you. Don't worry about it. You made your own choice.

Rob's confidence was communicated with a simple look that said, If you want to, and you don't, then that's on you.

Why am I choosing to be with these people?" Consciously or unconsciously, you may be choosing to hold yourself back—to be less than you are capable of becoming. By the way, I think

Whenever you go with the cheaper option, you end up regretting it

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." —Ralph Waldo Emerson (attrib.)

I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. You get busy living, or get busy dying." —Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

Everything is always in motion. Every day, every moment, your life path is either curving upward, or curving downward. Growing up we heard five times as many nos as yeses. Life has a downward pull. People on the success curve live in responsibility. People on the failure curve live in blame. People on the success curve are pulled by the future. People on the failure curve are pulled by the past. No matter where you are, at any moment you can choose to step onto the success curve.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." —Ralph Waldo Emerson