Choice Quotes

"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain." "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you" "If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness." "Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy -- they're given after all. Choices can be hard." "We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose" "We have the ability to shape our own destiny" "People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked" "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought" "Whenever people ask me what I'd most like to change about the white working class, I say, "The feeling that our choices don't matter" "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does" "In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it. I choose laughter" "I am condemned to be free." "The soul selects her own society then shuts the door " "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses" "At any moment, you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it." "It is often safer to be in chains than to be free" "The sky is falling, the wind is calling, stand for something or die in the morning" "I wish it need not have happened in my time said Frodo So do I said Gandalf and so do all who live to see such times But that is not for them to decide All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us" "Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment—and freely choose one, or the other, or both."