Quotes About Choice

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.

preferir cualquier otra cosa más que a Dios es una atrocidad moral en el universo—y, por tanto, es una amenaza eterna contra nuestras almas. Escoger cualquier otra cosa por encima de Dios no solo nos destruye, sino que también nos lleva a distorsionar todo lo bueno que hay en el mundo, incluyendo el dinero, el sexo y el poder.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

Since Roe v. Wade, abortion on demand has become engrained in American society. Not only have we killed at least fifty five million Americans in the womb, and emerging from the womb (not including under-reported abortion estimates), we also now kill over 90% of all Down Syndrome babies, solely because of their disability.

We're not fanatics and criminals like those from the 5th Corps. We all bow, go to mosque, and respect the Koran. We don't need an Islamic state under Alija Izetbegovic. Whether my sister will wear a veil is up to her to decide and not up to some stupid imam."8

El resultado es que con frecuencia parecemos obligados a escoger entre el utilitarismo y el intuicionismo.

Never let others dictate the directions that you pick in your life since they are not the ones living your life.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Making someone die, he was suddenly sure, was different from killing them. He could never kill anyone. But he could make someone die.

I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

Once a response becomes a habit, you stop learning. Theoretically, you could act differently, but in practice you do not. Habits are extremely useful, they streamline the parts of our lives we do not want to think about...But there is an art to deciding what parts of your life you want to turn over to habit, and what parts of your life you want to continue to learn from and have choice about. This is a key question of balance.

We all have beliefs and expectations from our personal experience; it is impossible to live without them. Since we have to make some assumptions, they might as well be ones that allow us freedom, choice and fun in the world, rather than ones that limit us. You often get what you expect to get.

Live as you want and you shall be at peace.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—'Thou mayest'— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if 'Thou mayest'—it is also true that 'Thou mayest not.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.