Quotes About Choice

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will

Mais vale um pássaro na mão do que dois voando, a senhora Morris disse para ela. — Tenho ouvido esse provérbio a minha vida inteira — disse Myra Murray —, e me pergunto se é verdade. Talvez os pássaros voando pudessem cantar, e aquele na mão, não.

I may not be able to do much that I want to do but I won't do another thing that I don't want to do.

I kind of felt I shouldn't shorten their lovely lives by picking them—I wouldn't want to be picked if I were an apple blossom. But the temptation was irresistible. What do you do when you meet with an irresistible temptation?

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.

Scelse il libro da portarsi, prese il quaderno degli appunti, e via.

Todo homem é a soma não das suas decisões, mas das suas hesitações, ou do que, pensando melhor, decidiu não fazer.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

For him freedom meant doing exactly what you wanted all the time. Was that freedom for everybody?

He had the suspicion that cogs were spinning, the universe beyond his walls was functioning and he was not, but he had no choice.

What did I expect him to say--that he would leave his wife? To do so was the province of fiction. Real life was not as easy as that.

You hate me now. I knew you'd be upset at the choice being taken away but I couldn't see you die.

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.

Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul.

Sometimes the best way of killing a person is to let him choose his own fate.

Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Confronting problems is choosing to suffer now in the hope of future gratification rather than choosing to continue present gratification in the hope that future suffering will not be necessary.

My feelings of love may be unbounded, but my capacity to be loving is limited. I therefore must choose the person on whom to focus my capacity to love, toward whom to direct my will to love.

The highest forms of love are inevitably totally free choices and not acts of conformity.

Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love

O casamento é a pior ou a melhor coisa do mundo; pura questão de temperamento.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.