Quotes About Choice

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

Time will pass whether you do it or not

We can't choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

For the rest, who can be fit to judge of these differences? As we say of debates about religion, that we need a judge who is not attached to one or the other side, exempt from choice or affection, which is not possible among Christians, so it is likewise in this case.

They view painful situations as accidents, bad luck, or something that was done to them. But many of the problems we face in life are not accidents. Most of the time our problems are ones we bring on ourselves

All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.

he knows he's running wild--and chooses to, burning up the future years of an empty lifetime for a few flashes of freedom

Dear Dad: After twenty-two years in the amusement park, this roller coaster isn't fun any more, so I'm getting off the ride. Roger

Pique or policy. We would never know.

I never sold out before because nobody ever asked me. In all it took around twenty minutes.

We are not born free, nor do we come into this world with a self-identity and autonomy of our own. We achieve those things, through the conflict and cooperation that weave us into the social fabric. We become freely choosing individuals only by acquiring obligations to parents, siblings, institutions and groups: obligations that we did not choose.

Conservatives believe in unchosen obligations (pieties), whereas classical liberals think that the only source of obligation is choice.

It is one mark of rational beings that they do not live only - or even at all - in the present. They have the freedom to despise the world that surrounds them and to live in another way.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Wishes, wishes. Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true

You are one of the few successful persons I know. Me? Why? You know precisely what you are doing and you do it well. But I don't really do much of anything. And of course the quantity means nothing to you, nor the weight others place upon your actions. In my eyes, that makes you a success. By not giving a damn? But I do, you know. Of course you do, of course you do! But it is a matter of style, an awareness of choice—

Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happend

Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happened

All roads lead to Amber, he said, as though it were an axiom.

But it is written that it is better to burn one city than to curse the darkness.

Predosje?aji su se igrali lovice u dubinama moga uma, ali niti jedan od njih nije mi se svi?ao dovoljno da bih ga poveo na ru?ak.

Man is the sum total of everything he has done, wishes to do or not to do, and wishes he had done, or hadn't.

Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true.

If he chooses instead the way of the Tantras, combining Samsara and Nirvana, comprehending the world and continuing to live in it, this one is mighty among dreamers.