Quotes About Choice

You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.

The chance you passed up or missed could have had any number of different outcomes, and it's easy to fantasize about how much better every one of those outcomes would have been.

Someone who's passed through the circumstances that I have has to make the decision either to be a good person or a bad person, and I decide to become better at every opportunity.

I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right.

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

Anyone anywhere - as long as you live in a country that does not censor the Internet - can now read this newspaper. But like diners passing up a healthy salad for an artery-clogging cheeseburger, many information consumers are instead digesting junk news.

But if men and women were not at the mercy of impersonal deities and random chance, they could no longer remain passive in the face of an unknown future. They had no choice but to begin making decisions over a far wider range of circumstances and over far longer periods of time than ever before.

people who start out with money in their pockets will choose the gamble, while people who start out with empty pockets will reject the gamble.

La palabra "riesgo" procede del italiano risicare, que significa "atreverse". En este sentido, el riesgo es más bien una elección que un destino.... La idea de la gestión de riesgos solo surge cuando las personas creen que hasta cierto punto son agentes libres.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

She had traded a dangerous freedom for the surety of slavery. Not

Do.As.Thou.Wilt.

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

The Devil isn't made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.

The Valley of Understanding: Here we all choose a different way and different rules to disobey.

Una de las ironías de las religiones en la Modernidad es que incluso hacen de lo absoluto una opción. Incluso aquellos que luchan por lograr la ortodoxia no escapan al imperativo herético, porque la verdadera creencia también depende de una elección (hairesis) a su favor.

Mit jugendlichem Pathos hatte ich geglaubt, mich zwischen ihr und dem Schreiben entscheiden zu müssen, zwischen Liebe und Freiheit. Jetzt erst begriff ich, dass Liebe und Freiheit sich nicht ausschlossen, sondern bedingten, dass das eine nicht ohne das andere möglich war.

El miedo es la posibilidad de ganar la libertad.

Fear is the possibility of freedom.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

most people would rather feel guilty than feel helpless.