Quotes about Choice
It means that how we relate to all our moments, all our experiences, is a choice.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
These qualities are beautifully encapsulated in the famous statement of Victor Frankl, himself a survivor of Auschwitz (and a neurologist and psychologist): "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
The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles
- Joseph Brodsky
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
- Joseph Campbell
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
- Joseph Campbell
They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.
- Joseph Campbell
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. The warrior's approach is to say "yes" to life: "yea" to it all.
- Joseph Campbell
Nirvana is right here, in the midst of the turmoil of life. It is the state you find when you are no longer driven to live by compelling desires, fears, and social commitments, when you have found your center of freedom and can act by choice out of that. Voluntary action out of this center is the action of the bodhisattvas -- joyful participation in the sorrows of the world. You are not grabbed, because you have released yourself from the grabbers of fear, lust, and duties.
- Joseph Campbell
Where there is a way or a path, it's someone else's way.
- Joseph Campbell
Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt: "The Fates lead him who will; him who won't, they drag.
- Joseph Campbell
The One Forbidden Thing. Remember Bluebeard, who says to his wife, "Don't open that closet"? And then one always disobeys. In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience.
- Joseph Campbell