Quotes About Choice

Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand-- I turn my face away; I'll not invite her to my home-- I only love Today.

I'll take the sound of a full throttle purr over the thump of a wagging tail any day.

I had to decide on the kind of life I wanted to live and live it.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.

We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.

We have a choice when we face difficult decisions: We can act with faith or we can act with fear. There are no guarantees except this one: If we dwell on our fears, we will definitely miss the joys of the unexpected.

Researchers from Harvard and the University of Virginia did an experiment in which they gave people a choice to be alone in a room, without anything—devices, books, papers, phones—or get an electric shock. 67 percent of men chose an electric shock.

Technology promises us greater control, choice, and convenience in every aspect of our lives-- how we shop, whom we date, our friendships, our heart rates, our schedules. But it also sells us the illusion that minutely mapping out and controlling our lives, even if it were possible, is a worthwhile goal-- which it's not. Sleep offers just the opposite. While it makes us better at things our culture celebrates-- performing and doing-- it also teaches us how to trust and let go.

Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. —WILLIAM JAMES

just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

Women of my generation were given the lavish gift of our own agency by feminism—a belief that we could decide for ourselves how we would live, what would become of us.

Live the life you want.

Vivrò il destino come ho scelto da solo. Perciò non tornerò indietro.

You can dump him in a car. You can dump him in a bar. You can dump him here or there. You can dump him anywhere. You can dump him with a text. He should be your future ex.

entirely up to us. I find it amazing that we're all

watched the setting sun as it sent bursts of colors across the sky as he thought about the question. "Because what we choose to do between the two is entirely up to us. I find it amazing that we're all given the exact same amount of time but what differs is how we utilize it.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

Probable impossibilities are always to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.