Quotes About Choice

The evil god wants to force humanity into the path he's chosen.  But if I was certain of the best path—" and here he smiled,  "—I wouldn't force anyone.  That would be a waste of energy.  I'd merely try to make the thing inevitable.

The self is essentially intangible and must be understood in terms of possibilities, dread, and decisions. When I behold my possibilities, I experience that dread which is "the dizziness of freedom," and my choice is made in fear and trembling.

They told us to take anything we wanted, be we were so delighted to be free, nothing else seemed to be of any value.

your choices can then only be as good as your requests, and sometimes that is not enough. There is a higher level that comes through recognition: You may not be able to articulate what you want, but you can recognize it when you see it.

La autorrealización es un derecho que tienes por el solo hecho de haber nacido.

Si no es dañino para ti ni para otros, puedes hacer lo que quieras.»

La falsa paradoja: idiota feliz o sabio infeliz queda resuelta. Hay una tercera opción mejor: sabio feliz, así sea redundante, porque no existe sabiduría sin alegría.

El amor completo, el que incluye pasión (eros), amistad (philia) y ternura (ágape), no llega de improviso como un demonio o un ángel que se apodera de nosotros, también existe la voluntad de amar o de no amar.

Quién dijo que tus preferencias deben cambiar porque tu ex ya no te acompaña?

uno no se enamora del que quiere, sino del que puede).

Repito: si no es dañino ni para ti ni para nadie, puedes hacer lo que quieras. Incluso, ser feliz.

Significa que a pesar de lo que sentimos podemos comprender que el otro no nos conviene;

La soledad impuesta es desolación, la elegida es liberación.

Tú eres el que escribe tu destino. Dios, el Universo o la Vida te han dado la tinta y el papel para hacerlo, pero tú lo escribes.

El perdón no es una obligación, es una elección libre que maneja sus propios tiempos.

La soledad es una decisión personal:

La libertad no vale la pena si no conlleva el derecho a errar. GANDHI

Todo placer es una cosa buena, mas no todo placer debe ser perseguido; y, paralelamente, todo dolor es un mal, pero no todo dolor debe ser evitado a cualquier precio. En todo caso, es conveniente decidir sobre estas cuestiones comparando y examinando atentamente lo que es útil y lo que no lo es, porque a veces usamos un bien como si fuera un mal, y un mal como si fuera un bien.41

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.

I had this sudden feeling, like my life could have easily taken another path.

At the outset the matter of Ted's taste arose.

Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed Ashcroft, I went out and got me four abortions. I stocked up. The doctor was like, 'Listen, you're not pregnant.' I said, 'Hey, just shut up and do your job. I'm exercising my right while I can, dammit.

I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

What brings us anywhere? You take one turn instead of another, you meet one woman instead of another, you have good health or you don't, luck vies with misfortune, you break down and arrive at Bellevue in your bathrobe on a Saturday morning or - what was his father's antique phrase - you pulled up your socks and got on with things. Your heart adapted to changing times. Your body did. Or it did not and you passed your days in a muffler of regret. And that was what they called intelligent design.