Quotes about Choice
They will readily change truth for error, who find no more sweetness in the one than in the other.
- John Owen
The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
- John Updike
He decides to walk around the block, to clear his head and pick his path. Funny, how what makes you move is so simple and the field you must move in is so crowded.
- John Updike
Everything can be taken from a human being but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." MBSR
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Acceptance of the present moment has nothing to do with resignation in the face of what is happening. It simply means a clear acknowledgment that what is happening is happening. Acceptance doesn't tell you what to do. What happens next, what you choose to do, that has to come out of your understanding of this moment.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it. This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to. It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully, moving fast because you have chosen to.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety or by the handle of faith.
- Anonymous
My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!
- Tullian Tchividjian
If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.
- George Lucas
Every time you feel like doing the wrong thing but choose to do the right thing, you are growing!
- Joyce Meyer
Chose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
- Thomas Monson