Quotes About Choice

You can only see slightly ahead into future... But even if we can't see it, we all have the right to change the future! ~ Capone Bege

A day in a man's life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.

Or the angry ones. Holding their heads oh no like a virus is taking over. My mind! Like it's such a big deal. Minds are always being taken over. Succumb, don't resist. Because we do get to choose what we are succumbing to. We create worlds out of what we put into our heads. I don't know about you. It's why I read.

every cow that jumps off the truck can be free will you jump with me

Ragnar est communiste et ne s'en cache pas: «soit on est communiste, soit on est con.»

Jörgen var frjáls maður. Hann gat gert það sem honum sýndist en það var það versta sem fyrir hann gat komið. Frelsið sem hann þráði svo heitt var versti óvinur hans. Þegar hann var frjáls gerði hann vitleysurnar.

You can't decide how someone will go about loving you.

We ourselves are responsible for what happens to us, whether or not we can understand how. It follows that we can change what happens to us by changing ourselves; we can take our destiny into our own hands.

All life is a battlefield, she used to tell me; whether we like it or not, we are born to fight. We have no choice in this, but we do have the choice of our opponent and our weapon. If we fight other people, often our dear ones, we cannot but lose, but if we choose to fight all that is selfish and violent in us, we cannot but win. There is no such thing as defeat on the spiritual path once we join Sri Krishna, but if we try to fight against him, we shall never know victory.

Who is the learner and what is his or her relationship to knowledge and learning? Is he or she basically good or evil (or both)? Passive or active in learning? Capable of choice, or has life already been determined somehow? Motivated internally or externally? An unmarked slate or having unrealized potential? These questions are answered every day in every classroom, daycare center, or basketball court—answered by the way children are viewed and treated by adults.

If his wife doesn't want him, I certainly don't, was my way of putting it.

Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew better than not to go ahead and let it.

We may not be able to control life's circumstances, but we always have a choice about how we use our minds to respond to them.

Also, while you go out into the world unconsciously seeking that long-desired security, without extensive experience with what you seek, you often repeat the same old mistakes, choosing again and again the same familiar sort of person who makes you feel insecure.

Would you rather be a happy pig or an unhappy human?

Spark asks whether men or women are in the driver's seat and whether the power to choose one's destroyer is women's only form of self-assertion.

A hectic schedule is a lifestyle choice . . .

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Not only have you been trained so thoroughly in how to think, but you have also been given the alternatives by which you could object to thinking a certain way.

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.