Quotes About Choice

Nothing may happen without wyrd, for it is present in everything, but wyrd does not make things happen. Wyrd is created at every instant and so wyrd is the happening.

If you speak, you die. If you keep quiet, you die. So, speak and die.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Of course there's another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I'm just not going to take it.

It's about how we're all part of an infinite number of parallel worlds. Every time we make a choice, a carbon copy of ourselves makes the opposite choice in a different universe.

What chances are you willing to take to get what you want? What dangers do your choices create for other people?

You see, there are moments in your life you are desperate to take back as soon as they happen, but the clock ticks, and they're gone. You make your choice, and an instant later, nothing is the same.

Enoch knew that the gods would hunt them down as soon as they discovered the family was gone. They did not stand a chance, but he had to try. He had no other choice. Stay and certainly die, or run and probably die. When Methuselah arrived at the gathering point with Edna, Enoch glared with disapproval. Methuselah stared him in the eye and said, "Would you prefer she marry the gods?" Enoch stubbornly refused to answer as they moved on through the passageway. His son was right.

We have lived as slaves most of our lives. We do not know how to make choices

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

Predictably, Katherine's car was a leased Toyota Prius, what they call a hybrid, and, though I consider myself as sensitive to the assassination of our environment as anybody, Sean Drummond was not the least bit happy with this choice. The car didn't even require a key to get started, just this stupid button you push, then you can't even hear the engine, so after the fifth time I punched the button, Katherine said, "Stop that, Sean. The damned car is already started.

THERE ARE times in life when the wrong thing to do is actually the right thing to do. Maybe vice versa, too. I don't know. I haven't gotten around to testing that theory yet.

Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and something you regret, in the end, might cost you the one chance you ever had.

For you know that you can get nothing more out of this lifetime. When you have time, when you have had the time to rest and re-energize your soul, you are allowed to choose your re-entry back into the physical state. Those people who hesitate, who are not sure of their return here, they might lose the chance that was given them, a chance to fulfill what they must when they're in physical state." I

You can only make choices for yourself. You can offer to help others find their way, but it is their decision if they will accept your help. You cannot force them to accept, even if you are in the right.

Yes, we choose when we will come into our physical state and when we will leave. We know when we have accomplished what we were sent down here to accomplish. We know when the time is up, and you will accept your death.

If you do not, when you return you will have to carry that trait, as well as another one, into your next life. The burdens will become greater. With each life that you go through and you did not fulfill these debts, the next one will be harder. If you fulfill them, you will be given an easy life. So you choose what life you will have. In the next phase, you are responsible for the life you have. You choose it.

Es importante recordar que el karma está relacionado con el aprendizaje, no con el castigo. Nuestros padres y todas las personas con las que nos relacionamos están dotados de libre albedrío. Pueden querernos y ayudarnos, u odiarnos y hacernos daño. Su elección no es nuestro karma. Su elección es una manifestación de su libre albedrío. También ellos están aprendiendo.

You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your spiritual progress.

How did I get so bogged down in ordinariness that even this once I couldn't do the spontaneous thing, the thing I really wanted to do. The future is forbidden to no one. Unless we forbid it ourselves.

What would it be like to pick and choose the objects and stories that would go into your own cabinet?

I knew I had to break up with Ann Rosenberg after she chose a teal dress for the prom. I had never heard of teal. Also, I was gay.

Ben remembered reading about curators in "Wonderstruck", and thought about what id meant to curate your own life, as his dad had done here. What would it be like to pick and choose the objects and stories that would go in your own cabinet? How would Ben curate his own life? And then, thinking about his museum box, and his house, and his books, and the secret room, he realized he'd already begun doing it. Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders.

Time is supposed to move forwards.' 'What if I don't like what happens?' 'Then...you change it.