Quotes About Choice

We each have to choose something but it is another question how and why we presume to choose for others.

il y a toute cette autre pensée de la guerre, non pas virile, exaltante, source de grandeur ou d'accomplissement de soi, mais tout simplement nécessaire car l'alternative à cette guerre ce ne serait pas la paix mais l'enfer...(ch. 5 La nostalgie de la guerre)

But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her.

Often enough in my life I have done things I had not decided to do.

I unfortunately see no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves.

Imagine someone is racing intentionally towards his own destruction and you can save him - do you go ahead and save him?

Ich dachte, wenn die rechte Zeit verpaßt ist, wenn einer etwas zu lange verweigert hat, wenn einem etwas zu lange verweigert wurde, kommt es zu spät, selbst wenn es schließlich mit Kraft angegangen und mit Freude empfangen wird. Oder gibt es zu spät nicht, gibt es nur spät, und ist spät allemal besser als nie? Ich weiß es nicht.

Penso, chego a um resultado, mantenho o resultado preso a uma decisão e faço a experiência de que a ação é uma coisa por si mesma, que pode mas não tem de seguir a decisão. Com bastante frequência no decorrer da minha vida fiz o que não tinha decidido e deixei de fazer o que tinha decidido.

Aber gibt es zu spät nicht, gibt es nur spät, und ist spät allemal besser als nie? Ich weiß es nicht.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Among those who are rich enough to choose their way of life, the particular brand of unendurable boredom from which they suffer is due, paradoxical as this may seem, to their fear of boredom. In flying from the fructifying kind of boredom, they fall a prey to the other far worse kind. A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

Prudence versus passion is a conflict that runs through history. It is not a conflict in which we ought to side wholly with either party.

The implication of the free-will doctrine are not realized by those who hold it. We say "why did you do it?" and expect the answer to mention beliefs and desires which caused action. When a man does not himself know why he acted as he did, we may search his unconscious for a cause, but it never occurs to us that there may have been no cause.

You can make a decision with your head. It still takes your heart a while to catch up with it.

Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.

That's life out there. See how it's movin? Even the leaves on the trees is movin'. Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.

Life is a book and you are its author. You detemine its plot and pace and you--only you--turn its pages.

No one is asking, let alone demanding, that you write. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your article or book. Whether or not you get a single word on paper, the sun will rise, the earth will spin, the universe will expand. Writing is forever and always a choice - your choice.

Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

God will put you in a position to wrestle with your identity and choose whom you believe: Him or you.

God chose David. On the surface, the choice made no sense. But God doesn't work on sense; He works on grace. God called you, and God called me. He knew what He was doing.