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Quotes About Choice

My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time?
~ Ernest K. Gann
Freedom is based on the anarch's awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. "A leap from this bridge will set me free.
~ Ernst Junger
Die Menschen besitzen alle Anlagen zum glücklichen Leben; sie machen aber keinen Gebrauch davon." GESAMT WERKE. Band 2
~ Ernst Junger
O bien poseer un destino propio o bien equivaler a un número: ésa es la disyuntiva que hoy nos viene impuesta -ciertamente por la fuerza- a todos y cada uno de nosotros, pero el inclinarse por lo uno o por lo otro es algo que corresponde decidir a cada uno por sí mismo
~ Ernst Junger
Each individual must know if freedom is more important to them—know whether they value how they are more than that they are.14
~ Ernst Junger
Il y a des chances qui tombent dans les bras du premier venu qu'elles rencontrent, des putains de chance qui le laissent tomber aussitôt pour aller avec le suivant, et il y a des chances avisées, au contraire, qui guettent une personne et l'éprouvent lentement.
~ Erri De Luca
Allora come adesso preferisco il libro al film, per il motivo della precedenza. Non succede che un libro sia tratto da un film.
~ Erri De Luca
Fortuna, ma ci sono fortune che vanno in braccio al primo che incontrano, fortune puttane che piantano subito e vanno col prossimo e invece ci sono fortune sagge che spiano una persona e la collaudano lentamente
~ Erri De Luca
By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.
~ Errol Flynn
I left the house to go throw away my chance at financial freedom someday ( i.e. Fill up my gas tank
~ Erynn Mangum
There are several kinds of happiness, Washington. Sometimes it is not for us to choose, or even understand, the one granted us.
~ Esi Edugyan
But human faces are so interesting," said I. "Yes, to be sure. But when you are looking at one face, you are not looking at another. You are privileging that face. You are deciding who is worthy of observation and who is not. You are choosing who is worth preserving.
~ Esi Edugyan
Life holds a sanctity for them we can scarcely begin to imagine; it therefore struck them as absurd that someone would choose to end it.
~ Esi Edugyan
There was but a thread between life and death, and he had stumbled blamelessly onto the wrong side of it.
~ Esi Edugyan
I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.
~ Esmeralda Santiago
I have many gay friends. We have talked at great length and in depth about homosexuality, and to anyone who thinks that being gay is a choice, I want to go on record as saying that they couldn't be more wrong. No one wakes up one morning, at age 12 or 19 or 30, looks in the mirror, and says, "Yes, I think I'll be gay." Just as no one decides to be straight.
~ Estelle Getty
that you are free to create your world as you want it to be, while others
~ Esther Hicks
I'm pure positive energy, deliberately choosing contrast for expansion. Not just contrast for my expansion. Contrast for the expansion of the Universe, at large! Contrast for the expansion of the Source, within me. Leading-edge contrast, for leading-edge expansion.
~ Esther Hicks
We would recommend that if you hear of an assault, you say, "That is their experience. I do not choose that." And then release the thought of what you do not want, and think of what you do want, because you get what you think about, whether you want it or not.
~ Esther Hicks
I want to feel good, so I will try to feel good by choosing a thought that does feel good.
~ Esther Hicks
All is being received by choice. We see the power of influence from others as a tremendous hindrance to your own individual creative thinking. Every being who receives anything, does so by his own choosing. The information that is offered is not being thrust upon you. You are making the decision whether to receive it -- or whether not to receive it.
~ Esther Hicks
It is so much more efficient to say YES to what you want, than No to what you do not want. Abraham -- G 7/4/91
~ Esther Hicks
It is our intent to stimulate more of you to want to create consciously and deliberately, so that you may understand that you are continually creating, and that you may choose deliberate creation instead of creation by default.
~ Esther Hicks
You are here to create the world around you that you choose, while you allow the world—as others choose it to be—to exist, also. And while their choices in no way hinder your own choices, your attention to what they are choosing does affect your vibration, and therefore your own point of attraction.
~ Esther Hicks