Quotes about Choice

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

Wrong was easy; gravity helped it. Right is difficult and long. In choosing what is difficult we are free, the mind too making its little flight out from the shadow into the clear in time between work and sleep.

Sometimes hidden from me in daily custom and in trust, so that I live by you unaware as by the beating of my heart, Suddenly you flare in my sight, a wild rose blooming at the edge of thicket, grace and light where yesterday was only shade, and once again I am blessed, choosing again what I chose before

be.—Yes he thought Between grief and nothing I will take grief.

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

a creature cloistered now by deliberate choice and still in the throes of enforced apprenticeship to, rather than voluntary or even acquiescent participation in, breathing

Any live man is better than any dead man.

What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

I will assume for the present---until next year---that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

It seems to me there are times when you have to act and times when you have to wait, but the hardest times are those when you want to do one but you have to do the other and you're not sure which is the best.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.