Quotes About Choice

Lo que pase depende exclusivamente de ti. Eres tú quien tiene la capacidad de decidir qué quieres cambiar de tu vida

Psychiatrist and writer Jerry Jampolsky asks the question "Would you rather be happy or would you rather be right?" I've been working on choosing happiness for quite some time.

If you want the girl next door, go next door.

I learned that the Italians are right. It isn't what happens to us that counts. It's what we do with what happens to us that makes all the difference

Things change all the time; but how much of it is real? Does any choice any of us ever makes, no matter how important it seems, really cause a ripple in the greater scheme of things?

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

Also living is option.

Even as a little girl, Irma Leopold had wanted above all things to see everyone happy with the cake of their choice. Sometimes it became an almost unbearable longing, as when she had looked down at Mademoiselle asleep on the grass this afternoon.

The essence of strategy," Porter often says, "is choosing what not to do.

Porter starts with the industry because competing to be unique is a choice made against a specific and relevant set of rivals, and because the structure of the industry determines how the value it creates is shared.

Henry Ford famously chose to operate his own rubber plantation in Brazil in the late 1920s, a decision that did not turn out too well. Ultimately, choices like this, about how vertically integrated you want to be, are choices every company makes about "where to sit" in the value system.

Always there is the one choice to be made: which road to take? which duty to accept? which item, amidst a store's displays, to purchase as our own? The paths of the past parts of our lives are strewn with things not chosen. One believes, nay, one is taught , that choice provides fulfillment of desire. In truth, however, relinquishment and loss enter in to the bargain every single time. Loss looks over the shoulders of fair choice. For every thing one chooses, some thing is left behind.

Thus we determined 'tis not solely the condition, but whether or not one has a choice that determines its oppression.

Anio?owie przekazuj? nowiny, ostrzegaj? nas i prawdopodobnie przeprowadzaj? wewn?trzne dialogi z naszym sumieniem, podszeptuj?c nam, by?my wybrali dobro zamiast z?a, i umacniaj? nas, by?my nie ulegali pokusie.

Todos los narradores tienen que elegir —explicó el contador de historias—. Algunos envuelven a sus personajes en un halo de desesperación, mientras que otros eligen un aura de esperanza.

Human beings had been created with a free will that made them choose to be one of the good guys or one of the bad guys. These days, unfortunately, more and more people seemed to be taking the low road.

We are as intimate with God as we choose to be."7 The only limitations of God's presence in our lives are the limits we ourselves set—the excuses we set up to avoid being filled to the measure with God.

I fuck you, nobody else does. Which hole I fuck is up for negotiation.

Decided it's time to get a new phone, that's all." "What was wrong with the old one?" Ruger asked, his voice mild. "It broke.

For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

Fearing the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.)

You are the only person I've ever met who goes the other direction from the things she wants

Maybe figuring it out is... I don't know, what it's all about. Constantly deciding. And you're true enough not to decide anything before you're ready, and you don't want to lock yourself up in a box. Maybe it's the sure people who are missing out.