Quotes About Choice

often what we want most in life is just the chance to do what we should have done to begin with.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don't' feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they're avoiding.

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.

Never trade what you love for what's behind curtain B. Never.

None of us has a death wish.

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

What makes us moral beings is that...there are some acts we believe we ought to die rather than commit...But now suppose that one has in fact done one of the things one could not have imagined doing, and finds that one is still alive. At that point, one's choices are suicide, a life of bottomless self-disgust, and an attempt to live so as never to do such a thing again. Dewey recommends the third choice.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

I'm about to fuck up, he thought clearly, and his next thought was, but I don't have to. This was followed closely by a third thought, the last of this familiar sequence, which was, but I'm going to anyway.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

Well, you know, it ain't nothin' out of the ordinary happened to Olive and me. Happens hundreds of times every day. But we're still livin' in the dark ages, I guess. Cain't just go to a doctor and say you want an abortion. Be ten thousand people that's got nothin' better to do than trying to run everybody else's lives, and they'd put you in jail, or shoot you or somethin'.

There's no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.

There's a black dog and there's a white dog, depends on which you feed, depends on which damn dog you live with.

There's no mistake , he says. It's your drink, the one you asked for, just the way you like it. How can you refuse?

Killing was never a good idea unless there were no other ideas.

The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.

our essential process for making a decision still relies on emotion.

There are a thousand ways to say no — but, I can't, it's impossible, it's too late — but there's only one way to say yes: with your whole being. When you do that you chose that word, it becomes the most spiritual word in the universe and your world can change.

choice is our superhuman power. It allows us to change everything all at once,

If I am in ceremony and prayer for the right reasons, I leave all that up to Creator. When I surrender outcome, all things good and pure and peaceful come to me. My job is to choose what appears. Easy to say but hard to do, to get out of the way enough to allow the energy to flow.

To paraphrase an old teaching, I'm learning to want nothing but to desire everything and to choose what appears. Life is easier that way, more graceful and I AM glittery—but from the inside out.

If the king had given me for my own Paris, his citadel, And I for that must leave alone Her whom I love so well, I'd say then to the Crown Take back your glittering town My darling is more fair, I swear. My darling is more fair.

Yes, death is far less dire to contemplate Than a forced marriage to an unloved mate