Quotes about Choice

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our precious lives nor perfect it in our lives to come

Is it better to shout and thereby hasten the end, or to keep silent and gain thereby a slower death?

If we only have one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Let us suppose that such is the case, that somewhere in the world each of us has a partner who once formed part of our body. Tomas's other part is the young woman he dreamed about. The trouble is, man does not find the other part of himself. Instead, he is sent a Tereza in a bulrush basket. But what happens if he nevertheless later meets the one who was meant for him, the other part of himself? Whom is he to prefer? The woman from the bulrush basket or the woman from Plato's myth?

I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.

We can never know what to want, because, only living one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor the perfect it in our lives to come.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lived to come.

I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order

God wanted us to choose to love him.

God could have programmed us as robots to do whatever he tells us, but then we'd never have the freedom to love and worship him.

When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself. Everything you are today, or ever will be in the future, is up to you. Your life today is the sum total result of your choices, decisions and actions up to this point. You can create your own future by changing your behaviors. You can make new choices and decisions that are more consistent with the person you want to be and the things you want to accomplish with your life.