Quotes About Choice

I would have stayed in 1996 if I could have, but it wasn't my choice, so now I have to move either forward or back—it's up to me. Not changing isn't an option. And even though I've changed in so many ways—I'm a different person with a different life—the past is still me every minute.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

As with the United States, so too in these other five countries federalism was not so much a free choice as a self-evident necessity imposed by history.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

The unchosen thing is what causes the trouble. If you don't do something with the unchosen, it will set up a minor infection somewhere in the unconscious and later take its revenge on you. Unlived life does not just "go away"...

The mystery is this: there is one right thing and only one right thing to do at every moment. We can either follow or resist the slender threads.

The stars incline, but do not impel.

There are no victims, only volunteers.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Everything in life is a matter of choice. There are only two things we have no choice about. We cannot avoid these two things no matter how hard we try. The first is that we must die. Death is an absolute certainty, and the second thing we have no choice about is that we must live until we die. Now understand this - everything else in your life that you think you have to do, or are forced to do, is a choice.

Knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice?

Once we have made a choice or taken a stand, we will encounter personal and interpersonal pressures to behave consistently with that commitment. Those pressures will cause us to respond in ways that justify our earlier decision.

In large measure, who we are with respect to any choice is where we are, attentionally, in the moment before the choice.

Social scientists have determined that we accept inner responsibility for a behavior when we think we have chosen to perform it in the absence of strong outside pressures. A

When it comes to freedoms, it is more dangerous to have given for a while than never to have given at all.

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

In this case, because we know that the things that are difficult to possess are typically better than those that are easy to possess, we can often use an item's availability to help us quickly and correctly decide on its quality.

the guiding factor in a decision is often not the one that counsels most wisely; it's one that has recently been brought to mind.