Quotes about Choice

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how

No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.