Quotes About Choice

Opting out just isn't a viable choice for most of us, most of the time; it violates what have become very real norms of contemporary life.

The overwhelming bulk of surveillance is corporate, and it occurs because we ostensibly agree to it. I don't mean that we make an informed decision agreeing to it; instead, we accept it either because we get value from the service or because we are offered a package deal that includes surveillance and don't have any real choice in the matter.

You lay claim to your stories; you honor, with your hard work and the best of your talent, their inspirations, and you fight to tell them well from a sense of indebtedness and thankfulness. The ambiguities, the contradictions, the complexities of your choices are always with you in your writing as they are in your life. You learn to live with them. You trust your need to have a dialogue about what you deem important.

They live in the gap between what's right and what's possible.

I see life for what it is now. That's why I know I must do this." He put the poison to his lips, and drank it down.

You can either be a dead hero or a live coward

If you do not grasp the difference between orange juice and detergent, brand names will at best help you drink the finest detergent on the market, and wash your dishes with the right amount of pulp.

Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart.

I'm sure you have seen corruption spreading like a disease... but it isn't really an infection. No one becomes corrupt because of the sins of another. They cannot catch it by mere exposure or by birth. All people choose for themselves.

Sixty-nine thirteen? Why do you have such a high number? Yours is the only house in sight." "I picked it myself," Patrick replied. "Six is the number of man. In order to get the second number, add three, the number of God. That represents the union of God and man in the Messiah. Finally, the thirteen

You can stay here and rot in luxury with me or

Where Eve chooses to go, Adam is bound to travel.

would that turtle rather have its bones treasured in death, or be alive dragging its tail in the mud? … Go! I'll keep my tail in the mud, too" (247). So Zhuangzi recommends that we do not seek prominence.

The danger of freedom is real, but enforced safety reeks of a much more odious danger.

Life only gives us exactly what we ask for, both good and bad. The real challenge is in understanding the subtle ways in which we ask.

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing." —Audre Lorde

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

All life is a gamble, and every man must choose his own risks.

As a rider, you must slowly and methodically show your horse what is appropriate. You also have to discourage what's inappropriate, not by making the inappropriate impossible, but by making it difficult so that the horse himself chooses appropriate behavior. You can't choose it for him; you can only make it difficult for him to make the wrong choices. If, however, you make it impossible for him to make the wrong choices, you're making war.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom