Quotes About Choice

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Many people, not least those people who come to therapy, convince themselves that there are alternative options to choose where none exist.

The tragedy of a life that is never fully lived is not simply the loss of that one life. The tragedy is the endless number of lives that would have been forever changed if we had chosen to live differently.

most people would rather live in the predictability of captivity than risk the uncertainty that comes in a fight for freedom.

Three powerful life-changing words passed on from God to us: Now choose life! Right now, this moment, put away the baggage from the past, shake yourself free from the fear of the future unknown. Right now, choose life—seize your divine moment. A

La desafortunada realidad es que muchos de nosotros escogeríamos nuestra comodidad en lugar de nuestro destino; escogeríamos la seguridad sobre la oportunidad; preferiríamos conformarnos con menos que sacrificarnos más.

You can choose to establish a monument for prayer or pray to unleash a movement. One is religious; the other revolutionary. In

The most spiritual activity you will engage in today is making choices.

Sometimes God allows us to go through tremendous disruption so that we might choose the path to freedom.

To give up on love is to choose a life that is less than human.

Debemos disparar la flecha y reconocer que hay cosas que están fuera de nuestro control, y debemos golpear la flecha y aceptar responsabilidad por lo que sí está en nuestro control. Debemos disparar y golpear, pero lo que no debemos hacer es detenernos.

Si la esclavitud sigue siendo una opción, nos encontraremos abdicando a nuestra libertad. Sencillamente, por lo general no lo llamamos esclavitud. Lo llamamos seguridad. Lo llamamos comodidad. Lo llamamos responsabilidad.

Questa sventura non la cambierei con la tua servitù, sappilo bene

The extended family, the community, and religion may indeed have limited our freedom, sexual and otherwise, but in return they offered us a much-needed sense of belonging. For generations, these traditional institutions provided order, meaning, continuity, and social support. Dismantling them has left us with more choices and fewer restrictions than ever. We are freer, but also more alone. As Giddens describes it, we have become ontologically more anxious.

When you pick a partner, you pick a story. So what kind of story are you going to write? You are the editors of your life stories. Write well and edit often. And remember ... a life story is not a love story. You can love a lot more people than you can make a life with.

Once divorce carried all the stigma. Now, choosing to stay when you can leave is the new shame.

When you pick a partner, you pick a story, and then you find yourself in a play you never auditioned for. And that is when the narratives clash.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."9

monogamy should be an "opt-in." If people were given more opportunity to choose, he offers, maybe some of them wouldn't have opted in and then they wouldn't be in trouble for adultery. Rather than penalize those who fail monogamy's standardized test, we should recognize that the test is disproportionately difficult.

Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl distills a profound truth: "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."9

People live their own way, and to a certain extent I almost believe they may die their own way, Laurel.

Når det kommer til stykket, er jeg ikke sikker på om De har moralsk rett til å blande dem i saken. Dessuten tror jeg fremdeles ikke det er noen fare på ferde. Etter min mening er det absurd å gå fra konseptene fordi om noen mennesker har fått lyst til å skifte ham. Det får bli deres egen sak. Det står enhver fritt for.

I've longed for fulfillment and all I find is torment. I had to choose between peace and passion. I chose passion, fool that I was!

Note, too, that fiction writers inevitably catch their central characters in situations involving ambiguities, not contradictories. The marshal in High Noon was being asked to choose not between a good and a bad but between two goods (or two bads, depending upon your angle of view).