Quotes About Choice

to hang a geometry book by strings on the balcony of their apartment so that the wind could "go through the book, choose its own problems, turn and tear out the pages.

Y yo le dije: pues allá tú, que seas feliz, vive en ellos y muérete en ellos si quieres, yo ya viajaré cuando tenga dinero. Entonces te faltará tiempo, dijo él. No me faltará tiempo, dije yo, al contrario, seré dueña de mi tiempo, haré con mi tiempo lo que me dé la gana. Y él dijo: ya no serás joven.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Replace 'I don't have time' with 'it doesn't matter' and see how that feels.

A woman's difficulty is that she has a much wider choice of men to provide her with genes than she has of long-term partners. She could probably persuade many men of her choice to give her their genes — it takes only a few minutes of sex, after all. Her options for a long-term partner, though, are much more limited.

studies show that when a woman leaves one partner for another, she invariably moves up the scale to a better compromise

It starts with doors, which, when you think about it, all of life does.

Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it.

To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.

It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

If you don't decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you.

You always chose to be bound by who you are. Now choose to be freed by who you are.

So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day

None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.

Cats talk to whomever they please.

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.

Now, anyone with two thoughts in their mind can see that no future is set in stone. An infinite number of futures bud at the end of every moment, and each one of them can be changed by a falling rose petal.

But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not because someone decreed if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

I can take all my pasts, keep them and determine my own future. I don't have to be what anyone made me, Brashen. I can be Paragon.

Make up your mind. Is Death a friend? Then go joyfully to hunt with it, as I did. If it's an enemy, then fight it. But don't sag here like a wounded cow waiting for predators to finish it off. You are not prey, nor I! If we must die, let us die as wolves!

As you will, King Fitz.

It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.