Quotes About Choice

As the mother of the ten-month-old hospitalized in San Diego said, if people want to make that choice, they should go live on an island with its own schools and doctors: "their own little infectious disease island.

if we don't take action now, we're choosing to stand by passively and watch as what passes for food today does nothing less than change both our health destiny and the arc of human evolution.

What is worse? To be chained all day with a bowl of water, or to be free and die of thirst?

A life without swimming every day was not a life I wanted.

To do the things she had chosen to do in the world, she risked forfeiting her place as a wife and mother, a bewildering place haunted by all that had been imagined for her if she chose to sit in it.

Capitalism sold a flat white to me as if it were a cup of freedom.

My point, Clara Gill, is that it's wise to choose your allegiance in this world, take a side or a story or a creed, but you might be wrong. You might be dazzled."~Will Cross

Waardoor ontspoorde het leven? Het begint met een stap. Begint het kwaad met een uitgesproken woord, of de adem voor het woord, of de gedachte voor de adem? Uit Voor altijd vandaag

There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening. And it's up to you to decide how you're going to approach the world...how you're going to live in it, and what you're going to do." —Jo Ellen Chapman

This is how it works. Everything is connected. Every choice matters. Every person is vital, and valuable, and worthy of respect.

There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

There's a point in love where we all can choose to be in love or not to be in love.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

Freedom is everything, but independence is nothing.

But God decided to create a world where free will was more important than no one ever getting hurt. There must be something stunningly beautiful and remarkable about free will that only God can truly grasp, because God hates, literally abhors, evil, yet He created a world where evil could happen if people chose it.

God gave Adam and Eve that free will and choice. He gave them one warning: eat of any tree that is here, including the wonderful tree of life, but don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…I wish Adam and Eve had thought more about what knowledge meant. Eve saw it as a good thing, to know more. But how do you really know something? You experience it

seemed like the flaw in life, that God had given men the freedom to do good or evil. And yet that freedom, a true free will, was at the heart of what he believed about life. Driven by love, God had created people with a free will, had given people the freedom to decide what they wanted to do, so God could know who wanted to freely love Him back. Most people rejected God and the world turned evil. But in the midst of that, God was still good, He still acted in love in every situation.

Sometimes love comes easily, and sometimes it's the most challenging decision a person ever makes. That reality doesn't make one way right and the other wrong, it just is. The love underlying marriage is more than an emotion, more than a set of facts adding up to a decision. It's the choice that this is the person I'm going to stay with for the rest of my life. It's something you have to make with your head and your heart . . . .

God decided to create a world where free will was more important than no one ever getting hurt. There must be something stunningly beautiful and remarkable about free will that only God can truly grasp, because God hates, literally abhors, evil, yet He created a world where evil could happen if people chose it.

God is good, Rae. Men have free will and often do evil. God has freewill and constantly chooses to do good. That's the difference between us. God is good. Men have a bent toward evil that won't change unless we appeal to God to take us in hand and make us good again. And since only a small fraction of men ever think it worth laying down their will to ask for God's goodness instead, we end up with days like this.

The disgruntled are abundant among those who are idle, and to be idle is a matter of choice.

Kalau saja hidup tidak berevolusi, kalau saja sebuah momen dapat selamanya menjadi fosil tanpa terganggu, kalau saja kekuatan kosmik mampu stagnan di satu titik, maka...tanpa ragu kamu akan memilih satu detik bersamanya untuk diabadikan. Cukup satu.

Reuben, kalau kemerdekaan yang kamu maksud sejenis keinginan anak kecil yang ingin memberontak kepada ibunya untuk bisa makan es krim waktu sakit flu, itu memang omong kosong. Aku rasa, Tuhan atau kekuatan agung apapun itu, nggak akan memberi hadiah yang dangkal begitu. Menurutku, free will adalah kebebasan manusia untuk mengubah perspektif. Kamu jatuh miskin besok, apakah itu bencana atau berkat yang tersembunyi? Semuanya ada di tanganmu. Free will adalah kemampuan manusia mengubah konteks.