Quotes About Choice

Elän ainoastaan siksi, että minun vallassani on kuolla silloin kun se minusta hyvältä tuntuu: ilman itsemurha- ajatusta olisin tappanut itseni aikoja sitten.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be precisely who we are.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.

The future appeals to you? All yours! Myself I prefer to keep to the incredible present and the incredible past. I leave it to you to face the Incredible itself.

We make choices, decisions, as long as we keep to the surface of things; once we reach the depths, we can neither choose nor decide, we can do nothing but regret the surface...

Leaving to the Gentiles the ephemeral advantages of salvation, they opted for the lasting disadvantages of perdition.

Whatever people try to do, they'll regret it sooner or later.

He who chooses time is engulfed by it and buries his genius therein.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs once acquired it can imprison us.

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

We see another facet of this freedom when

Narrano le vecchie istorie che quando Twashtri creò il mondo, rimase molto perplesso nel creare la donna e dovette pensare a lungo, prima di scegliere gli elementi necessari per formarla. (Le due tigri)

I would rather be single. I cannot possibly say that.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.

I miss us too. I always have and I probably always will. Sometimes there are no happy endings. No matter what, I'll be losing something, someone. But maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice again and again, day in and day out, year after year,says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.

Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.

Free government is self-government. A government of the people by the people. The best government of this sort is that which the people think best.

The nation, even if it chose for itself, would, in some degree, be an unskilled body; but when it does not choose for itself, but only as latent agitators wish, it is like a large, lazy man, with a small vicious mind.

If, therefore, a nation is able to gain the benefit of custom without the evil—if after ages of waiting it can have order and choice together—at once the fatal clog is removed, and the ordinary springs of progress, as in a modern community we conceive them, begin their elastic action.

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.