Quotes About Choice

No regrets, Wolf Father chided me. There is no going back to do a thing or not do a thing. There is only today. Today you must resolve to live. Each time you are given a choice, you must do the thing that will keep you alive and unhurt. Regrets are useless.

Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

William] Coxe expresses...both the pedestrian's advantage of complete freedom of movement, and the inspiring effect of the combination of continual change of scene with maximum time for appreciation that characterises the mobile gaze of the pedestrian traveller. If not a peripatetic by profession, Coxe is clearly one by choice.

Your ability to choose became your superpower.

It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.

Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?

You would throw away all that we have given you for a man's love?" "Not a man's love," I say softly. "But Duval's. And I would find a way to serve both my god and my heart. Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.

His divine spark lives within me, a presence that will never leave. And I am but one of many tools He has at His disposal. If I cannot act - if I refuse to act - that is a choice I am allowed to make. He has given me life, and all I must do to serve Him is to live. Fully and with my whole heart. With this knowledge comes a true understanding of all the gifts He has given me.

You can lament and carry on all you want to, but bad stuff happens to good people and there's not much any of us can do about it except choose how to respond.

Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.

it is this very practice of acceptance that allows another to change if he chooses to do so.

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

it's not exactly liberty if they force you to say it, is it?

The fork in the road stands atop a hill. To the left the path is soft and green and spangled with dew. You want to go barefoot. The path to the right is ordinary pavement, deceptively smooth at first, but then it drops out of sight into the hazy distance. Just over the horizon, it is buckled with heat, broken to jagged shards.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

But what if you don't like Chico?" she asked him, her brow furrowed. "Will you be there? Because if that's where you want to be, I'll find plenty to like.

It's up to you." He reached across the front seat and grabbed her hand. "It's always up to you." He drew her hand to his lips and pressed a soft kiss into her palm.

If he has the qualities you need in a partner, you sign on. And he looks you over, making sure of the same things. If you do that, there's only one option—you support their career choice because there's no other choice. You can't remake people, for God's sake. You have

He called and asked where she was and she said, "I decided to just come home tonight." "Why?" "Because there was no one to talk to at the bar," she said. "But I'm here." "Exactly," she said. And then she said goodbye. Of

There's power in humility. It's one of the toughest lessons I've had to learn. Like the other souls in this room, I live on unsteady ground. Each moment is a choice and for all my good choices, I'm a single mistake away from having to start my journey all over again.