Quotes About Choice

She struggled to think of one day in more than fifteen years of life when instead of drifting along like a leaf on the river she'd simply grabbed what she wanted. The

Freedom from versus freedom to.

A door must be open or shut... You can't have it both ways.

I'd never believed the future was inscribed for each of us the day we were born. If anything was written in the stars, it was we who joined those dots, and our lives were the writing.

The sadness ? the general sadness that squats and pees inside my brain ? isn't over. It never will be. I know how best to chase it away, though. It usually works. Sometimes it doesn't. But I pray and say, fuck it, then. I choose this. It chooses me. I choose it back.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

After a short discussion at the staff meeting we decided on – Sally Hope.

No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order à la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?

Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other

Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.

Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

this is your business—to act well the given part, but to choose it belongs to another.

Above all, remember that the door stands open. Be not more fearful than children; but as they, when they weary of the game, cry, I will play no more, even so, when thou art in the like case, cry, I will play no more and depart. But if thou stayest, make no lamentation.

Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment.

Who, then, is the invincible human being? One who can be disconcerted by nothing that lies outside the sphere of choice.

Let your will to avoid have no concern with what is not in man's power; direct it only to things in man's power that are contrary to nature.

If you choose, you are free; if you choose, you need blame no man—accuse no man. All things will be at once according to your mind and according to the Mind of God.

If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you'll find fault with no one, you'll cast blame on no one, and everything that comes about will do so in accordance with your own will and that of God.

It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards. And often it is best for us not to pay the price, for the price might be our integrity.

But to be hanged—is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

We aren't filled with fear except by things that are bad; and not by them, either, as long as it is in our power to avoid them.