Quotes About Choice

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

I'll give you another example. The snake in the Garden of Eden?" "Yeah?" "It was just a snake. Humanity's first real decision was to defy God. So was mine. That's the reason I make you uncomfortable. We're so much alike.

I once considered learning to love iced coffee, but then I remembered I'd have to kill myself, so I gave up the idea.

When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.

When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.

The universe is a meat grinder and we're just pork in designer shoes, keeping busy so we can pretend we're not all headed for the sausage factory. Maybe I've been hallucinating this whole time and there is no Heaven and Hell. Instead of having to choose between God and the devil, maybe our only real choice comes down to link or patty?

If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.

You are more likely to win again where you have won before. You are more likely to win when you are selective about the races you enter.

What I focus upon becomes reality. I have the power to choose.

it is only human nature to wonder and second guess about choices made and paths not taken.

Are you a consumer or producer?

You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one.

We experience a powerful reluctance to narrow our options—so powerful that we often miss out on good opportunities in order to avoid losing the remote possibility of something better.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

Life is not yours to take.

Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future," he said.

I've always believed that we don't choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as a way to punish ourselves." "Why would we punish ourselves? Doesn't the world punish us enough?" "Why wouldn't we? We live in a world that is always making us work for love. It's cause and effect.

I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.

when faced with overwhelming loss and stress, a man must choose to live and find his own way through his broken heart.

remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be—a period or an exclamation point.

Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future