Quotes about Choice
May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.
— Peter Marshall
These men were not selected by a jury of fellow artists, but appointed by the sovereign and electing choice of God.
— Philip Graham Ryken
We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.
— James Faust
I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.
— Abbie Hoffman
Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.
— Joe Biden
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