Quotes About Choice

You'll get to the point where you react differently when you see food you know you shouldn't eat.

I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

I understood and appreciated the miracle of birth, but I did not understand motherhood, nor did I appreciate the oveselling of it. To me it was a choice, one of many options. To others it was what women did. We were supposed to breed. It had been decided for us. Society expected it. Religion demanded it.

Out of us all That make rhymes, Will you choose Sometimes - As the winds use A crack in the wall Or a drain, Their joy or their pain To whistle through - Choose me, You English words?

One may do anything; this alone corresponds to the whole breadth life has. But one must be sure not to take it upon oneself out of op-position, out of spite toward hindering circumstances, or, with others in mind, out of some kind of ambition.

The centered state is a conscious choice.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

Discovery is discernment, selection.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.

The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Was die Menschen täglich ihre Entscheidungen nennen, ist nichts weiter als ein gut einstudiertes Spiel.

Das Leben ist ein Angebot, das man auch ablehnen kann.

Wenn von zwei ausschließlichen Varianten eine die Katastrophe, die andere das Warten auf die Katastrophe bereithält, so räumt das Abwarten doch wenigstens dem Zufall eine winzige Chance ein.

I think it better for me to do A than B, but am led by anger, or some other emotion, to do B instead.

Everything I do, I am responsible for; there is always something else I could have done, some other attitude I could have taken up. To say I am overcome by emotion is to evade the fact that I was the one who acted, who thought at the time that what I was doing was the right thing to do.

The question is not "Can you make a difference?" You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of a difference you want to make, during your life on this planet. (Taken from Black and Buddhist, thinking critically and teaching differently in the primary grades by Mary Cowhey)

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

And as Prince Ramil has insulted you by choosing another wife than the one you proposed for him, you'll want to cast him out too," she suggested slyly. "Oh, undoubtedly," murmed Ramil. "Do cast me out.

We have to find our own way to live, and to love. Don't ever let anyone else tell you how it should be for you.

There is always that choice, the light or the dark

Be no longer sorrow's victim. There's no reason now to fight. It's possible to choose each day To walk within the light. Give yourself completely–body, mind, and soul– To those who love and cherish you, and all the ones who know...