Quotes About Choice

Celestial light, you are my choice, my last and my best choice.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. —JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

In this sense, Calvin did assert a belief in "free will," which, for Calvin, amounted not to a human's natural ability to choose what is good but to his voluntary choice to do what is evil. Because of the fallenness of human nature, the only freedom of the human will, apart from grace, is the freedom from righteousness.

We can kill our sin, or sin will kill our marriages. Those are the only options.

The early parent-child environment, the balance between being and doing, lives on in the mind. Mindfulness offers an opportunity to see these patterns clearly. In seeing them, in bringing them into the domain of reflective self-awareness, there is a possibility of emerging from their constraints. Choice emerges where before there was only blind and conditioned behavior.

She understood now. You got married in spite of your wedding not because of it.

it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.

He has never believed in the Fates. You shape your own life, you see the available futures laid out before you and you choose the most advantageous. He can see now that this is a delusion from which you suffer when the path chosen for you is a profitable one. When the path veers into darker, more difficult terrain you finally understand that what you thought was weakness in others is not weakness at all; it is simply the structure of the world.

The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully.

Better a bird in hand than hell knows what in the bush.

I don't want an ambulance. I want you to sit down and shut up. But Signore, an ambulance could take you to a hospital. They could help you. I don't want to die in a hospital. You wouldn't! You'd live! Alessandro closed one eye. I don't want to be alive in a hospital, either.

You must choose, and choose aggressively. One of the most painful things about writing

In fact, the entire breastfeeding issue was an early version of the modern abortion issue, with men trying to make the decisions about what women should do with their bodies.

It's like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.

how to feel the pain of living without denying it and without letting that pain define us. Ultimately, no matter the burden we are given—apartheid, cancer, abuse, depression, addiction—once whittled to the bone, we are faced with a never-ending choice: to become the wound or to heal.

Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be extraordinary.

You can live as free men, but if you choose not to, your society will surely die.

Americans face a choice: you can rediscover the animating principles of the American idea--of limited government, a self-reliant citizenry, and the opportunities to exploit your talents to the fullest--or you can join most of the rest of the western world in terminal decline. To rekindle the spark of liberty once it dies is very difficult.

Barack Obama is a symptom rather than the problem. He didn't declare himself president; America chose him.

The right to evaluate risk for oneself is part of what it means to be a functioning human being.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.