Quotes About Choice

We can never know what to want, because, only living one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor the perfect it in our lives to come.

conclusion that the love story of his life exemplified not "Es muss sein!" (It must be so), but rather "Es könnte auch anders sein" (It could just as well be otherwise).

Olla naine on Sabinale saatus, mida ta pole endale valinud. Seda, mida me pole endale valinud, ei saa me pidada enda teeneks ega ebaõnneks. Sabina arvab, et osaks antud saatusega on vaja korralist suhet pidada. Mässata selle vastu, et oled sündinud naisena, on niisama sõge, nagu selle üle uhkust tunda.

?i din nou îi veni în minte ideea pe care o È™tim: ViaÈ›a omului nu are loc decât o singur? dat?, È™i noi nu putem verifica niciodat? care e ideea bun? È™i care a fost ideea rea, c?ci, în toate situaÈ›iile nu putem decide decât o singur? dat?. Nu ne este h?r?zit? o a doua, o a treia, o a patra via??, ca s? putem compara diferitele decizii.

El amor es nuestra libertad.

So fateful a decision resting on so fortuitous a love

Sabina once allowed herself to be taken along to a gathering of fellow emigres. As usual, they were hashing over whether they should or should not have taken up arms against the Russians. In the safety of emigration, they all naturally came out in favor of fighting. Sabina said: Then why don't you go back and fight?

Human decisions are terribly simple.

?ovek nikada ne može znati šta treba da želi, jer živi samo jedan život i nikako ga ne može uporediti sa svojim prethodnim životima, niti ga u slede?im životima popraviti.

La vie humaine n'a lieu qu'une seule fois et nous ne pourrons jamais vérifier quelle était la bonne et quelle était la mauvaise décision, parce que, dans toute situation, nous ne pouvons décider qu'une seule fois. Il ne nous est pas donné une deuxième, une troisième, une quatrième vie pour que nous puissions comparer différentes décisions

Il n'existe aucun moyen de vérifier quelle décision est la bonne car il n'existe aucune comparaison. Tout est vécu tout de suite pour la première fois et sans préparation. Comme si un acteur entrait en scène sans avoir jamais répété. Mais que peut valoir la vie, si la première répétition de la vie est la vie même?

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lived to come.

Personne n'a de mission. Et c'est un énorme soulagement de s'apercevoir qu'on est libre, qu'on n'a pas de mission.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.

Quanto mais pesado for o fardo, mais próxima da terra se encontra a nossa vida e mais real e verdadeira é. Em contrapartida, a ausência total de fardo faz com que o ser humano se torne mas leve do que o ar... (...) Que escolher, então? O peso ou a leveza?

He had no other possibility. His choice was not between play-acting and action. His choice was between play-acting and no action at all. There are situations in which people are condemned to play-act. Their struggle with mute power... is the struggle of a theatre company that has attacked an army.

Einmal ist keinmal ditor Tomas kendi kendine. Sadece bir kere olan ÅŸey diyor Alman özdeyiÅŸi, hiç olmam?? say?l?r. YaÅŸanacak bir tek hayat?m?z varsa eÄŸer, onu hiç yaÅŸamam?? da olabiliriz , farketmez.

Es mejor gritar y acelerar así la propia muerte? ¿O callar y lograr así una muerte más lenta?

?ovjek može sam sebi oduzeti život. Ali, ?ovjek ne može sam sebi oduzeti besmrtnost.

what HAD come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and a hyena. Now, consider what you will feed them. For a hyena does not eat the same things as a monkey...

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.