Quotes About Choice

A choosing of their God and their people, with a full determination and with the whole soul, is the condition of an union with them. God gives every man his choice in this matter: as Orpah and Ruth had their choice, whether they would go with Naomi into the land of Israel, or stay in the land of Moab.

How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.

You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

You're either reading a book or you're not.

You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl." -- Benjamin East

I saw the right way and approved it, but followed the wrong, until an emotion came along to provide some force.

the wise man "chooses not the greatest quantity of food but the most tasty.

Can I believe it?" when we want to believe something, but "Must I believe it?" when we don't want to believe. The answer is almost always yes to the first question and no to the second.

Los estoicos comprendieron que las palabras no causan estrés directamente; sólo pueden provocar estrés y sufrimiento en una persona que interprete esas palabras como una amenaza. Puedes optar por interpretar a un orador invitado como dañino. Puedes elegir tus batallas, dedicar sus esfuerzos a cambiar las políticas que te importan y a hacerte inmune a los troles.

Tonight, the choice was obvious.

Either live in thrall to statistics or make them your friends.

mean that." He strode to the door. Wrong door, the one that led back into the front waiting room, rather than

a reason why not. And—and, let's pretend

Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.

No other road, no other way, no day but today.

Non era solo la questione di mia sorella; era più di così, era l'intero corso degli eventi, la miseria del corpo e del desiderio, le decisioni che si prendono e sulle quali non si può tornare, il senso stesso che si sceglie di dare a quella cosa che chiamiamo, forse a torto, la nostra vita.

So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?" "That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future. . .you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me. . .what choice do you want to make now?

I don't want to kill you and you don't want to be dead.

People should be allowed to believe what they want to believe. If some of us have seen things that make us question the limits of the world and the possibilities of a larger world, then that's on us. It's ours to consider. To fear or not to fear as we each choose.

The value of choice is not in the size of the action but in its effect

Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.

Live the life that unfolds before you- love goodness more than you fear evil.