Quotes About Choice

Amare vuol dire, in ultima analisi, far dono delle nostre preferenze a coloro che preferiamo.

Nous autres les élèves, nous passons, vous, vous restez! Nous sommes libres et vous en avez pris pour perpète. Nous, les mauvais, nous n'allons nulle part mais au moins nous y allons! L'estrade ne sera pas l'enclos minable de notre vie!

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

Les droits imprescriptibles du lecteur : 1. Le droit de ne pas lire. 2. Le droit de sauter des pages. 3. Le droit de ne pas finir un livre. 4. Le droit de relire. 5. Le droit de lire n'importe quoi. 6. Le droit au bovarysme (maladie textuellement transmissible). 7. Le droit de lire n'importe où. 8. Le droit de grappiller. 9. Le droit de lire à haute voix. 10. Le droit de nous taire.

Aimer c'est, finalement, faire don de nos préférences à ceux que nous préférons. Et ces partages peuplent l'invisible citadelle de notre liberté. Nous sommes habités de livres et d'amis.

There is no one right way to live.

We all choose the life we lead. – Christopher Keller

Yes, one could prepare, one could strive, one could make choices, but ultimately life was an elaborate game of providence and probability.

one could prepare, one could strive, one could make choices, but ultimately life was an elaborate game of providence and probability.

Elections have consequences. – Gabriel Allon

We don't always get to choose our assets, he reminded himself. Sometimes they choose us.

So we're going to church. But which church? Americans like choice in their churches, as in their snack foods. We favor designer churches and a God designed to fit our tastes. We even start sentences with "My God is" followed by a descriptor, as though we each get to create the kind of god we want from a checklist of qualities that please us: loving (check), reasonable (check), favors my causes (double check).

most people think they will regret foolish actions more than foolish inactions.

in the long run, people of every age and in every walk of life seem to regret not having done things much more than they regret things they did

John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

Because we have accepted the view that there is a trade-off between equality and liberty, we think we have to choose. Lately, we have come, as a people, to choose liberty.

El ser humano necesita la confrontación para descubrir lo que hay en su corazón. Una vez descubierto su secreto tiene la opción de endurecerse o quebrarse, si escoge lo segundo encontrará la liberación del alma.

But the fact that something is free alone doesn't make it wise or compelling to proceed.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle of liberty is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

quieres. Frunces tu entrecejo, hablas duro y escondes tus dientes solo porque determinas hacerlo. Ríes si se te antoja o no ríes, porque tú y nadie más que tú así lo decides.

la memoria esconde las cartas perdedoras, selecciona, tiene piedad.

You dont allways chose what happens to you, but only you can allways chose your attitude. Attitude is your ultimate life tool, sharpen it because you will need it.

She is beginning to understand that completion is not so much about reaching perfection as it is making the choice to look away from the material. What was it Khalil used to say when she couldn't finish a paper in college? Be a completionist, not a perfectionist.