Quotes About Choice

Just thinking "What if?" can create a huge drama in our lives.

Y si no respetamos la libertad de elegir de los demás, la paz no es posible.

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering. Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny. To suffer, or to love and be happy. To live in hell, or to live in heaven. My choice is to live in heaven. What is yours?

Now it's up to you to choose what to believe and what not to believe. You can choose to believe in anything, and that includes believing in yourself. T

Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

Si alguien no te trata con amor ni respeto, que se aleje de ti es un regalo. Si esa persona no se va, lo más probable es que soportes muchos años de sufrimiento con ella. Que se marche quizá resulte doloroso durante un tiempo, pero finalmente tu corazón sanará. Entonces, elegirás lo que de verdad quieres. Descubrirás que, para elegir correctamente, más que confiar en los demás, es necesario que confíes en ti mismo.

Todo el mundo tiene el poder de guiar su realidad en una nueva dirección.

La felicidad, igual que el sufrimiento, es una elección.

You can make this agreement today: I choose to honor The Four Agreements.

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. And you can change your life anytime you aren't enjoying the dream.

You didn't choose your religion or your moral values — they were already there before you were born. We never had the opportunity to choose what to believe or what not to believe. We never chose even the smallest of these agreements. We didn't even choose our own name.

All things considered, Lizzie Hexam was crazy as a bedbug. But what she had with Tom--which I don't pretend to understand--she became a part of what was keeping him moving. Part of the point of it all. Like he needed a compass through ll the crazy shit. And he chose her.

But when the choice is between doing nothing and doing harm, surely nothing is the wiser option?

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

She could worry about it, do it, or not do it.

The time had come to act, to drink the bitter cup of responsibility.

Ah,meu senhor,a minha esposa,caso eu tivesse uma,teria corrido sério risco de ficar viúva!Mas felizmente,estou feliz por não ser casado.Ah,meu senhor,será que é possível trocar a liberdade de solteiro por esse fardo pesado?

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure... To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can never compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.