Quotes About Choice

It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples.

Having children is life's greatest joy. But there are some people, and maybe you are one of them, who don't like kids, and consider travel life's greatest joy. You shouldn't have kids. Don't have them.

How could that be what America chose?

We may be powerless to alter certain events, but we remain free to choose our attitude towards them, and it is in our spontaneous acceptance of necessity that we find our distinctive freedom.

Men often want to love, without managing to do so: they seek their own ruin without being able to attain it, and, if I can put it thus, they are forced against their will to remain free.

Yet we promise not to look around, either, for we accept that there cannot be better options out there. Everyone is always impossible. We are a demented species.

The possibility of an alternative love story is a reminder that the life we are leading is only one of a myriad of possible lives and it is the impossibility of leading them all that plunges us into sadness.

It is essential for the happiness of couples and the single that one regularly rehearses the very many good reasons why it's OK to spend one's life without anyone. Only once singlehood has completely equal prestige with its alternative can we ensure that people will be free in their choices and hence join couples for the right reasons; because they love another person, rather than because they are terrified of remaining single.

I will despise whatever lies in the domain of Fortune, but if a choice is offered, I will choose the better half.

one cannot blame a lover for loving or not loving, for it is a matter beyond their choice and hence responsibility – though what makes rejection in love harder to bear than donkeys who can never sing is that one did once see the lover loving.

Alas, Madame Straus, there are no certainties, even grammatical ones.… [O]nly that which bears the imprint of our choice, our taste, our uncertainty, our desire and our weakness can be beautiful.

A person cannot be at once a libertine and a married Romantic, however compelling both paradigms might be.

In moments of lucidity, we should be able to see for ourselves that untrammeled liberty can paradoxically trap us

The only problem with unrestricted choice, however, is that it tends not to lie so far from outright chaos.

To her, though, nothing could have been more serious, and she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

This was life, and if some things were kapu, others weren't; she had to stop regretting the ones that were and start enjoying the ones that were not.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us. Some, like Crossen, choose to do harm to themselves and others. Others, like Kenji, bear up under their pain and help other to bear it.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death … is the true measure of the Divine within us. Some, like Crossen, choose to do harm to themselves and others. Others, like Kenji, bear up under their pain and help others to bear it.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death .... is the true measure of the Divine within us. Some, like Crossen, choose to do harm to themselves and others. Others, like Kenji, bear up under their pain and help others to bear it. - Catherine in Moloka'i.

Life does not control you. What you believe about it, does.

Why live in a soap opera when you can star in a great love story?

The richest freedom is the power to choose inner peace.

Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Therefore the wise are guided by what they feel and not by what they see, Letting go of that and choosing this. —12