Quotes About Choice

Poets, I dare you to choose, for one night, the ambrosia over the ashes.

In a life, most of us turn no more than 45 degrees. Not much compared to those who turn full-circle in the slighest breeze or those who totally uncoil, but enough in the end to tell a bag of diamonds from a sack of coal.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

SzansÄ™ dostaje siÄ™ tylko w okreÅ›lonym czasie. Skrzy?owanie dróg, i tak dalej. Podejmujesz decyzjÄ™ i skrÄ™casz w lewo. Podejmujesz innÄ…, skrÄ™casz w prawo i trafiasz zupeÅ'nie gdzie indziej.

We think about what to do, and muster considerations and arguments in favor of one course or another. How are we to think about that?

Freedom is a dangerous word, just because it is an inspirational one.

We are no more than taking a philosophical stroll in the park, here and there stopping to point out an interesting view. The park is not a paradise. Weeds grow, serpents lie in wait, and people have built slums over parts of it. But we do not have to inhabit them, if we are careful.

Our history has nothing to do with our destiny.

O amor pode ser ordenado, pois, essencialmente, não é uma emoção, mas uma decisão de querer que leva à ação. (p.228)

I came very close to saying no, and I often wonder how things would have turned out if I had. I'm being honest when I say I truly never wanted to become a murderer.

And we all have the right to go to Hell in our own way.

The past is what we make of it, if we know what's is good for us.

Los hombres hacen su propia historia, pero no la hacen a capricho; no la hacen en las circunstancias que ellos mismos eligen, sino en unas circunstancias que ya existen, dadas y transmitidas por el pasado».

In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean.

I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.

Life]It is what you make it. If you think you can't change the world, then go on and follow the path already carved out for you. But there are other roads to choose, they're just harder to trudge through. Changing the world is'nt easy, but I sure as hell am going to keep trying. Are you?

My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go. My heart... not so much.

Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

I want to live life on my own terms.

your actions with holds your future

Ser judía es más algo de tu corazón que de tu mente. Para algunos, ser judío es seguir estrictamente las leyes y las costumbres de nuestros antepasados. Para otros, es ser parte de una comunidad. La religión es muy personal. Siempre estaré allí para ti si quieres o lo necesitas. Puedes elegir adoptar el judaísmo o decidir que tu vida no lo necesita. Nadie puede imponer la religión en ti o ésta no será real.