Quotes About Choice

Freedom is not something we have, there is no such thing as freedom. Freedom is a quality of our personality: we are more or less free to resist pressure, more or less free to do what we want and to be ourselves. Freedom is always a question of increasing freedom one has, or decreasing it.

l'amour est l'enfant de la liberté" as an old French song says; love is the child of freedom

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

I have no husband, sir. Nor am I eager to acquire one. From my observation, husbands tend to limit a woman's adventures.

There was no magical key, no way to run or hide from my legacy. This was the life that had been given to me. What I made of it was up to me.

This was the life that had been given to me. What I made of it was up to me. I

As Pollock has astutely observed 'it is uncoerced consent which lies at the heart of our marital system not unconstrained choice'. 10

Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings. How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate Unless we dare The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little thing; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the souls dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold resistless day and count it fair.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the souls dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold resistless day and count it fair.

to remind myself that a person can die while they're still alive, simply by not choosing to live." It's taken me a long time to understand what she'd meant by that. Worry can be pernicious. Left unchecked, it slowly bleeds the soul of joy and replaces it with fear.

Each day brings another handful of opportunities. It's up to you to make the best of what you're given.

We win because we make it happen, we lose because we let it happen!

we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

He was being offered a paradise which was shackled to a hell. How could he say yes, how could he say no.

Ce serait simple si, sur les chemins de la vie, on avait juste à choisir entre la trahison et la fidélité. Bien souvent on se trouve contraint de choisir plutôt entre deux fidélités inconciliables ; ou, ce qui revient au même, entre deux trahisons.

À présent, tout ce qui n'est pas interdit est obligatoire !

it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.

The city was still .... Soon the machinery would start working again, not out of any sense of purpose, but like a watch that is wound daily by someone's hand. Almost without any choice in the matter, people would embark upon the minute frustrations and satisfactions of their daily lives. It was in this moment of postponement that the azaan was heard, neither announcing the day nor keeping it a secret.

Do not acept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.