Quotes About Choice

You Shape Your Own Reality Every Day

I pretended he was my brother, only he was better than a brother because I chose him and he chose me. —Rosie

Stephen reached out to her then, entwined her fingers in his. It was not difficult for me. You must understand that. For me, it was an easy choice, for it was the only choice. I know, she said again, and coming into his arms she clung tightly, resting her cheek against his chest as she sought to comprehend the ultimate irony, she who had no irony at all in her soul, that the qualities she most loved in Stephen were the very ones that were crippling his kingship.

In my life, I've been both the besieged and the besieged, and I know damned well which I prefer!

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

If I could choose, a place to die," it would never have been in your arms, old darling

You may have heard the old story, usually attributed to a Native American elder, meant to illuminate the power of attention. A grandfather (occasionally it's a grandmother) imparting a life lesson to his grandson tells him, I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is vengeful, fearful, envious, resentful, deceitful. The other wolf is loving, compassionate, generous, truthful, and serene. The grandson asks which wolf will win the fight. The grandfather answers, The one I feed.

To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage

I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is vengeful, fearful, envious, resentful, deceitful. The other wolf is loving, compassionate, generous, truthful, and serene." The grandson asks which wolf will win the fight. The grandfather answers, "The one I feed.

My family had chosen the army as my career, and war is the army's stock in trade.

we cannot blame the British for saddling us with this system, though it is their 'Mother of Parliaments' our forefathers sought to emulate. First of all, the British had no intention of imparting democracy to Indians; second, Indians freely chose the parliamentary system themselves in a Constituent Assembly.

We brought up our sons to 'eat everything', but their mixed genetic inheritance prevailed: one twin took to meat-eating with relish, while the other, at age seven, with no persuasion whatsoever from his father, turned staunchly vegetarian.

lack of preference is itself a preference. To put the true leaders of the people on the same level as princes and pretenders and pimps is not virtuous but vicious.

Now, he says, you all need to stand by your choices. Fighters should expect to get locked up again. If you can accept that, then there's no shame in it. Everybody is free to do whatever they want in life, so long as they accept the cost.

This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." (JEREMIAH 6:16)

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

Existe el jardín. Y existe la cizaña. ¡Y a menos que seas despiadado, la cizaña siempre gana!

We are made of the stuff of stars, given our lives by a living world, given our selves by time. We are brother to the trees and sister to the sun. We are of such glorious stuff we need not carry pain around like a label. Our duty, as living things, to be sure that pain is not our whole story, for we can choose to be otherwise. As Ellin says, we can choose to dance.

Power is power as the sun is the sun, the wind is the wind. The villager blesses the rain as it falls on his crops; the pillager uses it to cover his approach. It is the wielder who determines the good or evil.

Each of us - rich and poor, gay and straight, black and white - we are fragile and finite. We all go through this glorious life without guarantees, without promises of rescue or redemption. We have freedom of speech and religion, and the absolute freedom to leave behind our loved ones, or to force them to unhappily pursue us.

How often had men sat around dinner tables and discussed women's lives, their choices, and the reasons why one woman reached across the bed to touch another woman?

There is a good day to die and there is a good day to play the piano.

Have I chosen friends because they smell like absence?