Quotes About Choice

I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying it's worth doing. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Odd what sticks to our memory, sort of an arbitrary choice made by the subconscious.

We need to figure out what's best," she said. "Do you think you can give us some time, maybe wait this out? You'll be eighteen in four years.

When somebody pushes, pushes, and pushes you into a corner, pretty soon you're not going to want to be in that corner anymore.

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

Love must be chosen. It must be free, and it must be from the heart, without external motivations. But, quite frankly, it's very difficult for an all-powerful God to behave in such a way that love can occur with these qualities.

So it is, I believe, in every area of our lives. The more we choose something, the harder it is to choose otherwise, until we finally are solidified—eternalized—in our decision. The momentum of our character becomes unstoppable.

Love must always start free—but its goal is to become unfree. To be unable not to love is the highest form of freedom in love.

Every day we choose not to commit suicide we are manifesting our fundamental conviction that life is worth it, despite all the pain we may experience.

the greatest miracle of omnipotence was in creating beings who had the potential to resist it.2 2.

Decide had the same root as suicide and homicide. Decisions felt like little killings. Somebody lost.

emerges from logic, not desire.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram.

If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?

And hope, that ancient seed, redeems the heart it feeds. The heartbeat of any conscious now is poised on the same choice that hope gives all of us, between shadows of the past, and the bright, blank page of any new day.

Fate always gives you two choices: the one you should take, and the one you do.

What is civilisation? Idriss once remarked. It's a woman, free to live as she wants.

The choices we make are branches in the tree of possibility.

Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion.

Suffering, let me see. I think that suffering is a matter of choice. I think that we do not have to suffer anything in this life, if we are strong enough to deny it. The strong man can master his feelings so completely that it is almost impossible to make him suffer. When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control. So I will say that suffering is a human weakness.

Instinct chooses her own children.

Every human heartbeat is a universe of possibilities.