“You always have a choice. Don t ever imagine you don t. Whatever you do, it s a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That s when honor becomes more than empty words.”
“They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.”
“You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it s not a mistake, it s a choice.”
“We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.”
“There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments.”
“I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.”
“But I don t care what you think, not about these things anyway. If you don t think they re real or important or you think that we ll all grow out of this nonsense, well, that s not really my business. I can t tell you what s real for you. But in return, you can t say what s real for me either. I get to choose. Not you.”
“But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There s no godliness there.”
“To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible.”
“Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching.”
“All I m saying is that you shouldn t stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to someone else to be their girlfriend. It s a choice you remake every day.”
“My mother s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.”
“You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.”
“At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy.”
“Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?”
“As our life is our main provisional value, ‘taking the time’ to interpret our experiences is a momentous choice. Time, life and choice outline a trilogy that can solve and unite so as to vanquish the powerlessness which we might face on our path. (Could time be patient?)”
“There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.”