Quotes About Choice

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return.

La clase de filosofía que se elige depende de la clase de hombre que se es.

we all have a choice now between two profound forces - fragmentation, or flow. Fragmentation makes you smaller, shallower, angrier. Flow makes you bigger, deeper, calmer. Fragmentation shrinks us. Flow expands us. I asked myself - do you want to be one of Skinner's pigeons, atrophying your attention on dancing for crude rewards, or Mihaly's painters, able to concentrate because you have found something that really matters?

But humans do have a choice. We can—as I learned later—find practical ways to dismantle hierarchies and create a more equal place, where everybody feels they have a measure of respect and status. Or we can build up hierarchies and ramp up the humiliation—as we are doing today.

we all have a choice now between two profound forces-- fragmentation, or flow. Fragmentation makes you smaller, shallower, angrier. Flow makes you bigger, deeper, calmer. Fragmentation shrinks us. Flow expands us.

I felt in that moment that we all have a choice now between two profound forces—fragmentation, or flow. Fragmentation makes you smaller, shallower, angrier. Flow makes you bigger, deeper, calmer. Fragmentation shrinks us. Flow expands us. I asked myself: Do you want to be one of Skinner's pigeons, atrophying your attention on dancing for crude rewards, or Mihaly's painters, able to concentrate because you have found something that really matters?

Armut ist ohne Zweifel das Schrecklichste, mir dürft' einer 10 Millionen hinlegen und sagen, ich soll arm sein dafür, ich nehmet's nicht.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

While Man's desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err.

Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.

In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a flat one.

And with a measured haste propel Yourselves from heaven through the world to hell.

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Let's say 'Yes' to life and 'No' to death.

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.