Quotes About Choice

PICK YOUR FABRIC "The importance of this step cannot be understated. If you pick the wrong fabric, your dress is doomed from the start. Pick a fabric that has the right weight, that will flatter the design. And the figure of the bride who will wear it. Once you pick your fabric, the die is cast. There is no going back.

There's no such thing as the biggest mistake," her mother said. "There's only what you do and what you don't do.

By and large, people who choose to go into science are not greatly interested in psychological problems... He liked the exactness of science, and the perfection of its truths - Humanity could be rather messy in comparison.

No is the wildest word we consign to the language

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

We are the authors of our lives. We write our own daring endings.

The choice usually presented to Christians is not between Jesus and Barabbas. No one wants to appear an obvious murderer. The choice to be careful about is between Jesus and Caiaphas. And Caiaphas can fool us. He is a very "religious" man.

Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one's mindset can be the wellspring of tolerance, mercy, and compassion.

the Church is a purely volunteer organization. No member has to do anything he or she doesn't choose to do.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, 'It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be.

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

there's a difference between having no one because you've chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.

A person can carry his own persecutor, his own prison, about with him, Monseigneur. He can - as you know - die of thirst even when he has the clearest water within his reach. To be free...not to be free...it is all relative. No one has to drag along more ballast than he wants to and he who allows himself to be bound is a fool. The biggest fools are those who wear shackles of cobwebs and believe themselves to be helpless.

Having the possibility to make decisions about what to do with one's life is a great privilege. As far as most people on this planet are concerned, life is simply about survival.

Aunque más adelante he elegido mal de vez en cuando en la vida, nunca podrá compararse con la derrota que supone no elegir en absoluto.

Tener la posibilidad de decidir a qué quiere uno dedicar su vida es un gran privilegio.

Si se diera el caso de un dolor insoportable que no se pudiera paliar, podría pedir que me sedaran. Así abandonaría durmiendo esta vida y este mundo. Prefiero eso que tener que suicidarme. Es algo que no quiero hacer, por mis seres queridos. Si estuviera solo en la vida, podría ser una opción, pero hoy por hoy no lo es.

En los países pobres, lo primero que pierden las mujeres es su capacidad de elegir.

Life tosses us all hither and thither. Is there anything we can truly decide for ourselves?

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

Unlike a fairy tale, the parable provides no happy ending. Instead, it leaves us face to face with one of life's hardest spiritual choices: to trust or not to trust in God's all-forgiving love.

When love chooses, it chooses with a perfect sensitivity for the unique beauty of the chosen one, and it chooses without making anyone else feel excluded.

Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a Devine choice.