Quotes About Choice

Touched bottom again. Decided to liberate myself... We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.

When I look at the large green iron gate from my window it takes on the air of a prison gate. An unjust feeling, since I know I can leave the place whenever I want to, and since I know that human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's self.

Me siento atrapada entre la belleza de June y el genio de Henry. De manera distinta, me entrego a los dos, una parte de mí para cada uno. Pero amo a June con locura, fuera de toda razón. Henry me da vida. June me da muerte. He de escoger y no puedo. Ofrecer a Henry todos los sentimientos que he experimentado respecto a June es exactamente como entregarme a él en cuerpo y alma.

I am stuck with the novel, but it is a good healthy stop; it is the minute when I choose forever one kind of writing from another. It's a desperate moment, but beyond the temporary paralysis, I feel already the joy of a good bold cutting out of the mediocre.

Equality makes way for an increased number of free, considered choices, and an increased number of people with access to them. But choice itself isn't the same as equality...

Empowertising not only builds on the idea that any choice is a feminist choice if a self-labeled feminist deems it so, but takes it a little bit further to suggest that being female is in itself something that deserves celebration.

Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

One has to choose. The main thing is to know what one wants...

Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom.

This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene--a moment's forgetfulness suffice.

Those [who] assiduously fabricate for themselves a self-conscious originality, and after having made a choice of certain practices, their principal preoccupation is never to depart from them, to remain for ever on their guard and allow themselves not a moment's relaxation.

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

To know how to free oneself is nothing, the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. (pp13 - The immoralist)

Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.

Prostitution means for the woman the carnal annihilation of will and choice, but for the man it once again signifies an increase in power, pure and simple.

He made a choice, one his father didn't understand or agree with. But he still should have supported it. That's what love is about.

If we stopped arguing for one true view and conceded that we had a choice in this matter, we might gain the ability to choose flexibly. We could then more easily choose perspectives that allow us to solve problems we humans care about, problems that require delicate decisions, such as how to best distribute resources in a country, how to provide for and educate a population, and how to improve its intelligence.

because they sincerely believe that their current policy has no alternatives, and that any other policy choice will bring ruin to them and their families.

How strangely people live. They seem to be in command of the situation and they do not understand that they have been given the chance of living and actually using the opportunity to be free. Everything in this life is terrible, apart from the freedom of will that we possess.