Quotes About Choice

The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time.

I love bowling almost as much as I love not bowling.

Dad didn't believe in God, but he was a lifelong member of the Church of Shit or Get Off the Can.

AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.

You can be born with bad cards. You don't need to have it all. But you have a choice and the power to craft your own destiny, your own path.

You choose your battles. I think it's important to choose what battles you stand up for. But there are some battles that you should never, ever stand down from.

Iets wordt pas onmogelijk als jijzelf alle mogelijkheden uitsluit,.. citaat uit 'Ooit keren de doden terug.

Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.

Taking the easy way out or telling the truth—those are not merely two different choices. They are different pathways through life. They are utterly different ways of existing.

And this is an amazing thing: the answer is already implicit in Genesis 1: to embody the Image of God—to speak out of chaos the Being that is Good—but to do so consciously, of our own free choice.

To do something, you have to VALUE something. It is a definitional issue. Because, to DO something, is to ACT OUT the proposition that the thing you are doing, the thing you are AIMING at, let's say, is PREFERABLE to the thing you have. And preferable means that you will do it.

Our primordial parents hearkened to the snake. They ate the fruit. Their eyes opened. They both awoke. You might think, as Eve did initially, that this would be a good thing. Sometimes, however, half a gift is worse than none. Adam and Eve wake up, all right, but only enough to discover some terrible things. First, they notice that they're naked.

But not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many

Friendship is a reciprocal arrangement. You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place. Quite the opposite. You should choose people who want things to be better, not worse. It's a good thing, not a selfish thing, to choose people who are good for you. It's appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.

The idea that human life can be free of moral concerns is a fantasy.

Any idiot can choose a frame of time within which nothing matters.

the worst decision of all is none.

There is a responsibility that everyone can take up: we need to decide if we are going to collectively and individually tilt the world towards heaven or tilt it towards hell.

Si no hubieras decidido que lo que estás haciendo ahora es mejor que las alternativas, no lo estarías haciendo.

Elige tu destino y expresa tu Ser. Como el gran filósofo alemán del siglo XIX Friedrich Nietzsche observó tan brillantemente: «Quien tiene un porqué para vivir encontrará casi siempre el cómo».67

that is, the doubt that doubt itself is an ultimately reliable guide) objects: the worst decision of all is none.

Not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone who is at the bottom wishes to rise.

Face the demands of life voluntarily.

Only unusually strong and logically consistent people act in this manner. Having realized all the stupidity of the joke that is being played on us and seeing that the blessings of the dead are greater than those of the living and that it is better not to exist, they act and put an end to this stupid joke; and they use any means of doing it: a rope around the neck, water, a knife in the heart, a train.