Quotes About Choice

If you're not happy, it's all on you. If you want to find your way, be your own compass.

The cattle are restless from the water," he told them. "Stay alert. Given the choice between losing one of them and losing one of you, I want you to save yourself." "Good to know," Maya muttered from Phoebe's left. "What if it's the choice between me and two steers?" Zane either didn't hear her or ignored her.

Better to keep trying until you find something that makes you happy rather than choose something now and hate your job for the next twenty years.

Be comfortable saying no, Pamela. At the same time, be comfortable saying yes. Every now and then life gives us an unexpected opportunity. How sad to walk away without sampling what is offered.

You're right on the edge. You can go either way. I think the world would be a better place if you found your way back. Don't become one of the lost souls. We already have too many.

you can only do what's right for yourself. You can't control anyone else.

You're married, you stay married. That's the way it is. Being happy or not is up to you. A man can't make a woman happy. It's like asking a cat to grow wings. It's not in their nature. Happiness is in here.

What she really wanted to ask was "What possessed you to choose this ridiculous little town when you could have lived in New York or Los Angeles" but felt that might sound slightly judgmental

Being happy or not is up to you. A man can't make a woman happy. It's like asking a cat to grow wings. It's not in their nature. Happiness is in here.

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's.

I don't think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, and not the other way.

I am saying, when you make a choice, even if it's a bad one, you've played your hand. You cannot live your life as though you still held all your cards.

there are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's.

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

Authenticity is not something you have—it's something you choose. In

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.

We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new? [ Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade) , Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

Toda a capacidade de compreender está enraizada na capacidade de dizer não.

Ordinary language fixes the difference between handmade images like Goya's and photographs by the convention that artists make drawings and paintings while photographers take photographs. But the photographic image, even to the extent that it is a trace (not a construction made out of disparate photographic traces), cannot be simply a transparency of something that happened. It is always the image that someone chose; to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

Ä°nsan sonsuza dek kraliçe kalamaz. Gücünü devam ettirebilmek için ya tahttan vazgeçeceksin, yahut da ÅŸehit edileceksin. Ben birincisini seçtim.

There does come a point when you have to acknowledge you're no longer postponing something and you really have made a choice.

How simple life was when she stopped trying to do what was expected of her and followed her will.

It? You mean preserving a zygote or blastula or whatever? That's their moral obligation? Not their obligation to a living, breathing woman who just got raped?