Quotes About Choice

In one of the chapters of her book my mother characterizes the relationship of sisters as one that can illustrate the essence of relationships, an understanding companionship of two complete and independent individuals who choose to be together.

jede freie Entscheidung als Fehlentscheidung herausstellen kann, bei Grenzgängen oft mit tragischen Folgen.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

The idea of choice has deeply penetrated our perception of feelings, as though we can 'choose' whether or not to have them.

Whatever sartorial choices a woman makes are hers and hers alone. It is neither a man's nor the state's place to define proper "womanhood" in Islam. Those who treat the Muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin: the objectification of women.

It is simply up to the individual to decide what "the One" is: how it should be defined, and how it should be experienced

Su cuique mrs fingunt fortnam. (Cornelius Nepos

Picking the breed is important. I have a friend who got a schnauzer for his wife. I told him I thought it was a good trade.

When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to come entirely of their own accord, and they were the dog and the cat. And ever since then, those two have been jealous of each other, and each is for ever trying to make man choose which one he likes best. Every man prefers one or the other.

And, Freedom, was I free?

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice.

Of course there's destiny, but destiny doesn't push you where you don't want to go. You're the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

One way to pick a future is to believe it's inevitable.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.

All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. What you choose to do with them is up to you

The only law is one which leads to freedom

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.