Quotes About Choice

What's scary is the ability to understand multiple situations and not know which is right.

Love is not like choosing a partner for whist. It has a life of its own. our duty is merely to follow its call.

I have come to dislike anything that demands constant attention, whether it is dogs, dishwashers, or finally men. I like things that are independent, and that need you only because they want you, not because they'll have a breakdown without you.

The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.

As in other tests it was now the moment of decision; she was given a final chance to reverse the inevitable course of destiny—ever does free will move through the gate that binds the past and future.

Nothing out there tells us how we must live: we and we alone can now with confidence knowingly trust our own hearts, and admit that we do and must invent our own ethics.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn't walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.

Fate's book, but my italics.

Each man's death was his own. He may not choose the time or place, he may not even realize that he was dying, but no two departures from this life were ever perfectly identical.

free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Boro replied, "Let those believe who want to believe. We'll stay as we are.

La qualità della vostra vita dipende da ciò che farete. Gli unici limiti alle avventure sono i limiti della vostra immaginazione.

Work isnt work unless you would rather be doing something else.

They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.

Satan can only tempt you with what you already have.

Lesson: Don't hold on to something's going to pull you into a trap. If you're going to let go, let go early. Better yet, don't take the bait at all.

You're a big boy," Ana observes, staring blankly into her cup. "You could have said no." "I stand with Oscar Wilde on the subject of temptation.

Perhaps we're not the greater good, but we are the lesser of evils.

would have' is just another way of saying 'didn't.

Hell isn't having no choice. It's having to make a choice between horrific things.

The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?

Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.