Quotes About Choice

We all walk the assigned path.

When presented with a choice of beginnings, choose the one with meaning.

No, I haven't decided where to live yet." He thought, I haven't decided if I want to live yet.

Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed.

there is always a better choice than cowardice, if you have business to take care of." Then he laughed and shook his head. "One day, long ago, my life was shaped and my fate was fixed. Fearlessness is better than a faint heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago. But how I live, and how I die, that is my choice.

Everything is on the table and nothing on the altar.

Was it not Jean-Paul Sartre who said, 'Man is condemned to be free! Because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does!

Wherever women have the vote, wherever girls stay in school for longer, wherever women are in charge of their own lives and not dictated to by men, wherever they have access to good healthcare and contraption, wherever they are free to take any job and their aspirations for life are raised, the birth rate falls. The reason for this is straightforward - empowerment brings freedom of choice and when life offers more options for women, their choice is often to have fewer children.

Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?

The fact is, none of us really has a choice: We are all playing the money game whether we want to or not. The only question is: Are we winning?

But if you don't know where you want to go, I suppose any path will get you there.

In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot — and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice.

Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.

It is good that existers enjoy their pleasures. It is also good that pains are avoided through non-existence. However, that is only part of the picture. Because there is nothing bad about never coming into existence, but there is something bad about coming into existence, it seems that all things considered non-existence is preferable.

stay, do so in peace and love. Above all, free yourself from the control of others by making your own choices and recognizing your own boundaries.

Freedom is not something that can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Pity the clever girl who marries for money and then falls in love with her own husband.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

when you choose to forgive, and you want peace badly enough, you will forgive. But, and this is a big but, if you do not have absolute faith that what you are doing is the right thing and that it will bring you peace, you will not find ultimate peace. Ultimate peace of mind comes when you can forgive someone and have absolute knowledge that it is God's and your highest will to do so.

Librarianship was a good choice of profession for him, he claims, since 'it has just the right blend of academic interest and administration that seems to match my particular talents, such as they are'.

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

I am content. While my shrewd fellows rode about the world to seek and to attain power and wisdom, I have elected, as and unpractical realist, to follow after beauty.