Quotes About Choice

Sometimes what other people want is wantable, briefly, before dissolving in the face of your own wants.

Freedom may come not from being in control of life but rather from a willingness to move with the events of life, to hold on to our memories but let go of the past, to choose, when necessary, the inevitable. We can become free at any time.

Attachment is a reflex, an automatic response which often may not reflect our deepest good. Commitment is a conscious choice, to align ourselves with our most genuine values and our sense of purpose.

It's a free country. I can walk here if I want to.

Yes, we can all cart our fractured selves along as we move through our lives. But we can choose whether we keep plodding along the same rutted road, or take a turn we'd never thought was ours to take.

Taking the high road is hard work-- walking uphill requires strength and effort. Anyone can take the low road--walking downhill is easy.

If you get up to fight a battle, you might lose. But if you choose never to fight, the loss is guaranteed.

Fear and unbelief are actually correlated: if we allow fear to control our lives, it is a choice not to trust God.

And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

We know it, but chose forget it. Is too much hard to bear. Yesterday, you made me realize that: we chose forget.

Joan has a right to love whom she likes, and to go where she likes and to work and be independent and happy, and if she can't be happy then she has a right to make her own unhappiness; it's a thousand times better to be unhappy in your own way than to be happy in someone else's.

this route is only one of several imaginary paths.

Beneath the damage she can still find moments of wonder, hints of joy. Would she even say she is optimistic? It isn't the shiny optimism that lifts Samuel, but it's a hard-won kind, born from the depths. A choice. It is enough.

be here if she hadn't decided to have another baby.

Everybody has nightmares," she answered. "To paraphrase John Irving, you don't get to pick them. They pick you." "True enough.

I used to sit and cry and hold a loaded gun up to my head but I chose a slower way of being dead

Sometimes in life you know the right path, but you need to leave it as your ego becomes more important than it.

Two common problems with our society: 1) We are forced to study what we are not passionate about. 2) We are forced to love what ever we get.

Would you rather have your child in a room with the best equipment in the world with an average teacher or an empty room with Socrates?

While one can do nothing about choosing one's relatives one can, as artist, choose one's "ancestors."

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.

There is a connection to all living things, a vibration of Life. Animals were not given a power of choice. A lion does not try to eat legumes nor an elephant meat. We believe the best way to communicate with nature, God, is through a liaison: the animals.