Quotes About Choice

The only thing that mattered was the quarter century or so he had remaining would be HIS life, to live out as he chose and in his own best interests. Nothing took precedence over that...The possibilities...were endless.

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.

He that is not with me is against me" (Mat 12:30). If you are not gathering, then you are scattering. If you are not walking in light, then you are walking in darkness! There is no neutral position;  there is no middle ground!

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place—then it won't make a damn.

In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses... a slave obeys.

But isn't it enough that I just don't want it?" "No," said Fiona. "It isn't enough." "Why not?" "Well, if that was enough, if just saying no and not giving a reason was enough, where would we be? It would just be chaos.

The plan is to marry a doctor, It's either that or become a trolley-dolly and hit on a pilot.

Our ideas can enslave or liberate us.

No one needs to be a victim of their own biography." Or, as Carl Jung puts it, "I am not what has happened to me, I am what I choose to become." PRINCIPLE #3: LIFE IS ORGANIC In my experience, very few people in middle age or beyond correctly anticipated the lives they have actually led.

lo que determina nuestra vida no es lo que nos pasa sino lo que hacemos con lo que sucede.

PRINCIPLE #2: YOU CREATE YOUR OWN LIFE Whatever your history and circumstances, you should never feel locked in by what has happened to you up to now. It is often said that you cannot change the past but you can change the future. And so you can, because of your very nature as a human being.

Between life's stimuli and our habitual responses exists choice.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

Faith does not mean mimicking Jesus, but participating in his self-giving love—not because we have somehow chosen to be like him, but because, incredibly, God has chosen to become like us.

Uvijek se može birati...pitanje je zapravo imate li hrabrosti da izaberete i da se toga držite?..Iskoristite ovu krizu i snagu koju vam je ?ini se donijela...otputujte na neko vrijeme...Vi ne poznajete moju majku..preživjela je uzdignute glave najgore dogadjaje, prezire slabost... U Selminim venama te?e krv 38 sultana. 6 stolje?a apsolutne vlasti - ali i 6 stolje?a kurtizana. Ona je podjednako plod i jednih i drugih, istovremeno i kraljica i robinja.

Can you make a wrong turn when you don't know where you're going?

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

How could a choice be called free when its consequences are unknown at the time of our choosing?

Every question selects a field of battle.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.

It indicates very poor breeding," Miss Simpkins informed me primly. "We are not dogs or horses," I insisted hotly. "None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterward.

When you can do nothing, what can you do? [...] This is the most amazing, yet most obvious and logical answer: that in the certainty of death, one should get as much out of life as possible. Paradoxically it is the absence of choice in this matter that allows us to have more inner freedom.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.