Quotes About Choice

For in any given moment, regardless of circumstances, I can choose again. I can choose strength instead of weakness, and love instead of fear. I can choose to bless instead of blame, and to lean into the future rather than dragging with me the past.

Course in Miracles says that everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them.

the swinging pendulum of HUMAN WILL, which decides our fate. God does not choose for us, or compel our love — we are free to fashion out our own futures; but in making our final choice we cannot afford to waste one moment of our precious, unreturning time. MARIE CORELLI.

But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They will make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did.

not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.

My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did.

as circumstances would seem to dictate. You are free to act by your own lights. You are freed at the same time of the impulse to hate or resent that person. He would probably laugh at the thought that the Lord sent him to you for your benefit (and his), but that is the perfection of the disguise, his own ignorance of it.

Above all, love must be freely given, by mutual consent on both sides, through the exercise of free will. Because it is thus freely chosen, it is an act of humanity and civilisation, neither a daemonic possession such as hurled Dido upon her funeral pyre or Medea upon her children, not the base stirrings of concupiscence.

Every man has but one destiny

Everyone is responsible for everything he does

Le haré una oferta que no podrá rechazar.

Once anybody makes up their mind to kill then there's no other problem. That's the hard part, making up your mind.

a man has but one destiny

Bet, ak vai, cik ?auna bija pasaule, kas lika cilv?kam gr?kot.

jak w?a?ciwie nale?a?o ?y? - szcz??liwie czy moralnie?

O comes o te comen, no hay más remedio.

Sólo la libertad le interesaba ahora para manejar su soledad a su capricho, llevarla a un cine, encerrarse con ella en cualquier parte.

En cualquier sociedad, la libertad de pensamiento sólo tendrá, probablemente, significación directa para una pequeña minoría. Pero esto no supone que alguien esté calificado o deba tener poder para elegir a quienes se reserva esta libertad. Ello no justifica por cierto a ningún grupo de personas para pretender el derecho de determinar lo que la gente deba pensar o creer» (p. 203).

Un tiro es un segundo. Eso es preferible a irse muriendo de a poquitos, de hambre, de frío, de soledad, de tristeza.

No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say Oh, my gosh, and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.

What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?

He chose you because a plain setting makes the diamond sparkle brighter.

La libertà ha sempre un prezzo.