Quotes About Choice

Any one moment could be like this, I thought. A continental divide.

Nobody truly decided for themselves. There was too much information. What they actually did was scope around, decide who was looking out for their clan, and sign on for the memos on a wide array of topics.

This is my test: I imagine them back there in the moonlight with the ground all around us boiling with ants. Now, which one, the crooked walker, or the darling perfection? I know how they would choose. Any man who admires my body now is a traitor to the previous Adah. So there you are.

I'd tried all the options with Mom and had only one place left to go on her. Cold.

It seems facile to declare one single forbidden fruit, when humans live under so many different kinds of trees.

No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.

Tappy shoes are not happy shoes, I think

fraction of a second, before asking

Why him?He was as likely to offer me security and safety as a violent terrorist holding a gun to my head.So why I had chosen him?Because he had charmed me into a love affair,had truly convinced me he was madly in love with me.

If you knew at the outset what you understood at the end, would you make the same choices, take the same risks, accept the same sacrifices? No. No one would. You can't appreciate the weight of that burden until after you've assumed it. You can't comprehend what it really means.

When I'd killed Ozawa at the sent?, I'd briefly wondered whether I was now one of the bad guys. By the time I did McGraw, I'd figured out there are no bad guys, any more than there are good guys. There are only smart people, and stupid ones; puppets, and puppet masters. Better a wise r?nin, I decided, than a naïve samurai.

People talk about morality. Sometimes I think there's just what you can do, and what you can't. Well, I could. And I was going to.

To act here is to face one's own complicity, to choose to take life in order that one's own kin might continue to live. When I lie down to sleep far from home, I place this small work of art close by on a folded scarf.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it. Nobody knows what you want except you, and nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. So don't give up your dreams.

Happiness is a choice

We are free to be the authors of our own lives, but we don't know what kind of lives we want to 'write.

Freedom to choose has what might be called expressive value. Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are and what we care about.

keeping options open seems to extract a psychological price. When we can change our minds, apparently we do less psychological work to justify the decision we've made, reinforcing the chosen alternative and disparaging the rejected ones.

According to a survey conducted by Yankelovich Partners, a majority of people want more control over the details of their lives, but a majority of people also want to simplify their lives. There you have it—the paradox of our times.

Apparently we always think we want choice, but when we actually get it, we may not like it. Meanwhile, the need to chose in ever more aspects of life causes us more distress than we realize.

The choice of when to be a chooser may be the most important choice we have to make.

Adding the second option creates a conflict, forcing a trade-off between price and quality.

adding options can be detrimental to our well-being. Because we don't put rejected options out of our minds

But by restricting our options, we will be able to choose less and feel better.